A court in Hague has slapped a case against XS Networks for copyright infringement and for not shutting down a site that it knew was illegal.
XS Networks has ceased all its services and operations. XS Networks used to rent its servers to SumoTorrentSite.com.
SumoTorrentSite.com. exclaimed that this ruling against XS Networks could prove to be dangerous.
SumoTorrentSite.com. does not seem to have been affected as it had already moved its base to Ukraine even before the case came to the court. It continues to operate without any ruckus.
This case against XS Networks was filed by an anti-piracy group called ‘Brein’ claiming that the file sharing site’s former web host was liable for damages.
“We take down more than 600 sites a year – these are sites which give access to illegal content,” Tim Kuik, the head of Brein, told the BBC.
“If the sites are unco-operative, we go to the hosting provider that has to take them down according to a Dutch law, which states that if a site [falls into the category of] ‘evidently illegal sites’, the hosting provider has to take it offline.
“What is new now is that the court has ruled that a hosting provider that doesn’t act promptly becomes liable for damages.”
Mr Kuik said that the case could serve as an example to other countries in the European Union and elsewhere.
“The most important issue was to get this principle established, to show that there are consequences for hosting providers.
“It is important throughout the EU, because even though this case is about law in the Netherlands, this law has direct implementation of the EU directive on these issues.”
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