This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Digital
Dutch ISP criticises piracy body over BitTorrent demands
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 June 2010
Dutch internet service provide XS4ALL has spoken out in support of one of its rivals, which has been targeted by the Netherland’s anti-piracy body BREIN.
The Dutch piracy body, which has been particularly active in recent times in its attempts to stop web-users in the Netherlands from accessing The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent services, is currently taking legal action against Ziggo, the country’s biggest cable internet provider. Like most ISPs, Ziggo doesn’t want to have to play a more proactive role in policing piracy, whether that be by challenging customers who file-share or blocking access to websites which aid file-sharing.
And competitors XS4ALL are backing them on that issue. A rep for that company, Niels Huijbregts, told TorrentFreak recently: “The basic principle of the internet is that ISPs pass on traffic to their customers unfiltered, they are merely a gateway. The Pirate Bay website is not hosted on a Ziggo server, so Ziggo can’t be held responsible for restricting access to the website. BREIN is targeting the wrong people”.
Of course to be fair to BREIN, they have targeted The Pirate Bay directly, and successfully, through the Dutch courts, but that’s not stopped the rogue BitTorrent service from operating.
