Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA 90
eldavojohn writes "With the Pirate Bay trial, it's been easy to overlook similar struggles in other nations. A Dutch Usenet community named FTD is going on the offensive and suing BREIN (Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland). You may remember BREIN (along with the IFPI & BPI) as the people who raided and cut out the heart of eDonkey. This is turning into a pretty familiar scenario; the FTD group makes software that allows its 450k members to easily find copyrighted content for free on Usenet. The shocking part is that FTD isn't waiting for BREIN to sue them. FTD is refusing to take down their file location reports, and is actually suing BREIN. Why the preemptive attack? FTD wants the courts to show that the act of downloading is not illegal in the Netherlands. (Both articles have the five points in English that FTD wants the courts to settle.) OSNews has a few more details on the story."
Hooray! (Score:0, Funny)
These brave Dutch people will defend everyones rights against the sinister Italian menace. If only Americans had spines and would stop the Italians from poisoning our hot dogs with their silly Italin music-boxes that prevent real songs from being found in our hearts. One thousand red salutes to Chairman Mao!
To me it looks like FTD... (Score:5, Funny)
..have broken the first rule of Usenet.
Re:a criminal suit vs a civil suit (Score:4, Funny)
Or is a criminal suit just another term for prison issue jump suit? Come to think of it, are jump suits allowed to be given to those on suicide watch? Seems like an encouragement of their intentions to me. Will there be law suits if that happens, and if so, where do we buy these law suits? Can we rent them?
Or is this like some WWE match with two blokes in suits trash talking each other before poking each other with pens and smacking each other with filofaxes? Spivmatch.....maybe I should sell the concept of that reality show to some TV network, where the audience are comprised of people the spivs have robbed with ponzi schemes over the years. The winner gets a quick death, the loser gets ripped apart by the audience......slowly.
Re:To me it looks like FTD... (Score:5, Funny)