p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Pirate Bay owners won’t, after all, be liable for huge fines of  $42,300 per day if they don’t shut the site down in the Netherlands, as they’ve been ordered to do by a Dutch court.

Not for the moment, anyway.

They’d, “gone over to the attack” in their continuing battle with the Korporate Kopyright Kartels with (retired) TPB spokesman Peter Sunde (left) saying he`d be filing criminal charges against Tim Kuik, frontman for BREIN, the Dutch version of the RIAA and MPAA combined, p2pnet recently reported.

A Dutch judge ordered The Pirate Bay to shut down in The Netherlands after BREIN charged TPB was, “responsible for millions of copyright infringements on a daily basis,” said NME.

Traffic to and from The Netherlands was to have been blocked within 10 days and failing that, company co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Fredrik Neij would have had to find $42,300 per day in penalties.

The men say they have never received a summons, were unaware of the case being brought against them and will appeal the ruling, said NME.

Now the trio are to, “launch a legal challenge to a Dutch court order temporarily banning the site’s activities,” says The Local, quoting their lawyer, Ernst Louwers, as stating he’ll file a summons by August 25.

“The men wanted a new trial so that they could present their side of the story, he explained,” says the story.

BREIN won’t oppose TPB’s bid for a new trial, “but said it had ‘no doubt’ the judgment would be maintained,” says the story, adding:

“The body agreed to the suspension of the €30,000-a-day fine for the month of August, until The Pirate Bay reopens the case.”

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

continuing battle – Pirate Bay lays criminal charges against BREIN, July 23, 2009
retired – Pirate Bay`s Peter Sunde walks the plank, August 3, 2009
NME – The Pirate Bay ordered to shut down in Netherlands, July 30, 2009
The Local – Pirate Bay to seek Dutch retrial, August 10, 2009

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