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The Pirate Bay Founders Summoned To Court Via Twitter
Written by Ernesto on June 23, 2009

The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has summoned The Pirate Bay’s founders to court through Twitter and Facebook. Emboldened by recent events in Sweden, BREIN is demanding a total blackout of the site in the Netherlands and has scheduled a court hearing for July 21st.


Funded by the movie, music and gaming industries, BREIN has been a thorn in the side of BitTorrent sites for years. More recently the outfit clashed in court with ********, demanding it should take rigorous measures to filter torrents from their site.

Hinting at The Pirate Bay, BREIN also suggested that ******** should ban torrents using trackers that are known to track a variety copyright infringing content. However, in an attempt to solve this issue more directly, the anti-piracy outfit is suing the operators of the site, demanding that they block access to Dutch visitors.

Claiming that the founders of the site are untraceable by the Swedish authorities, head of BREIN Tim Kuik hopes to get a hold of them via the Internet. “You can find the defendants on Facebook and Twitter. Internet works for enforcers as well as infringers. Now they know about the court case in The Netherlands,” Kuik said.

BREIN’s methods are a little unusual to say the least. Instead of ordering ISPs to block the site like IFPI did in Denmark and more recently in Norway, they sue the founders of the tracker instead. Not to mention the idea of serving The Pirate Bay team using Twitter and Facebook.

There are no public mentions of the summoning in any of the public profiles of the Pirate Bay Founders so we assume that they did so via direct messages. Meanwhile, BREIN’s official site seems to be suffering from a DDoS attack, but this is of course totally unrelated to the announcement of the anti-piracy outfit.