The court in The Hague has ruled that hosting company Xsnetworks has acted improperly in respect of Foundation Brain by the website Sumotorrent after demands not directly offline and data of the administrator not to provide. Xsnetworks would the damage to the Brain must compensate.
Brain challenged Xsnetworks in January for the right. Meanwhile, the court in the Hague issued a ruling. According to the court, the hosting provider unlawfully acted against Brein by not immediately after the receipt of demands the torrentsite Sumotorrent offline. Also would Xsnetworks not all the personal data of the domain holder to Brain have provided.
The judge wants Xsnetworks the torrentsite Sumotorrent, which for some time has moved to a hosting provider in the Ukraine, never on its platform will allow. It should also Xsnetworks pay for the damage caused in the period that Sumotorrent was online despite the fact that the hoster was contacted by the Brain. In addition, the hoster name and contact information of his former client to the Brain provide. The court has Xsnetworks a penalty of 10,000 euros per day be imposed with a maximum of a half a million euro.
Brain in a response to the judgment that the verdict has shown that Sumotorrent is an ‘obvious illegal site and that the hoster directly inaccessible had to make when the copyrightwaakhond them aanschreef. Also had Xsnetworks directly the name and address to provide the information.
Brein has been for years a legal battle against the torrentsite Sumotorrent. The website was previously hosted by Leaseweb, but under the pressure of the Brain is decided by the hoster to the torrentsite the door.