Brein claims to no reports about illegal downloading at the University of Groningen sent. Tim Kuik, the director of Brain thinks that one is if the foundation has occurred ‘to a relletje to create lwa ren.’
Brain only sends notifications about illegal sites and not on individual users, let Kuik to Nu.nl know. It would also be the foundation of the University of Groningen already had a period, no additional notification messages are sent. “As the University of Groningen considers notifications received from Brain, someone, if our occurred. Perhaps to a relletje to create,” says the director.
Friday it was announced that university of Groningen bittorrentverkeer going to block. The main reason for this would be that the Rijksuniverseit Groningen, so says the spokesman ” on a regular basis on the fingers is tapped by organisations such as Brein, due to the fact there are from a pc in the BACK-office network is illegal files are distributed on which copyright is based.’
Kuik promises Monday to contact the university to take on the event to find out. The decision of the university led to a lot of fuss. As Kees Verhoeven of the D66-group questions prepared. He will find that the CIT, that the internet connections of the BACK manages, an internet service provider and is therefore only to a blockage on after a decision of the court. “You will find it a desirable development that nota bene a university determines which website they can and cannot visit or what protocols to use?”, asked Verhoeven to the minister.
Update 16.45: American film studios like Warner Bros. and Paramount would be at the university have complained, let the person responsible for the ict department of the academic institution to Nu.nl know: “a communication error Brain called as the reason for this blockage. That is not correct and we apologize for it”.