Posts for Peter van der Veen

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11
MAY
2012

Pirate Party not allowed to offer bypass for TPB blockade

The Dutch Pirate Party is not allowed to offer a service that allows Internet users to bypass the blockade of The Pirate Bay that was ordered by Dutch courts recently. In a controversial set of lawsuits, initiated by the BREIN foundation, Dutch judges issued court orders that force Dutch Internet service providers to cut off their subscribers’ access to The Pirate Bay (TPB). BREIN, a group of...
09
MAY
2012

Dutch Senate approves new Telecom Act: net neutrality and restricted use of cookies codified

In a late night plenary debate on May 8th, the Senate of the Netherlands (Eerste Kamer) adopted several amendments to the Telecommunications Act in order to comply with EU Directives on IT and telecom law. The changes of law, proposed by the Dutch Parliament last June, lead to a new legal constellation unique in the European Union As we reported earlier on this website, the majority of Dutch MPs...
27
APR
2012

Dutch public VOD service must disable '16+ content' before 10pm

This week, a remarkable announcement was placed on the video-on-demand channel of the Dutch public broadcasters, UitzendingGemist.nl. "The government requires the public broadcasters (NPO) to apply the child protection scheme 'Kijkwijzer' to UitzendingGemist." From Thursday, April 26th onwards, programs that have been classified as unsuitable for children under 16 can only be streamed...
23
APR
2012

Australian High Court: ISP not liable for their user’s copyright infringements

The High Court of Australia has spared internet service providers liability for millions of acts of online piracy carried out by their Australian customers. “The Australian” reports that after three years fending the creative sector’s lawyers through legal proceedings, the country's highest federal court found last Friday that Australian ISP iiNet could not be held responsible for the trade of...
04
APR
2012

Dutch newspaper publishers will launch a 'Spotify for news content' this year

The publishers of six major national newspapers in the Netherlands are working on the development of a common digital platform for the individual sale of newspaper articles. This rumour has been confirmed today by Tom Nauta, Director of NDP Newsmedia, a media branch organisation and by 'De Volkskrant', a major Dutch newspaper. The newspapers involved in this project include 'De Volkskrant',...