Stichting Brein had 349 unlawful web sites and providers taken offline final 12 months – IT Professional – Information

Final 12 months, the Mind Basis had 349 unlawful web sites and providers taken offline. That is obvious from the annual report for the 12 months 2021. This issues web sites that distributed copyrighted works resembling music, movies, collection, books and video games.

Mind accomplished final 12 months in his personal phrases 368 investigations into the unlawful distribution of content material and 43 different investigations are ongoing. The inspiration won’t go into additional element concerning the investigations. Brein does state that 349 unlawful web sites and providers have been taken offline because of his ‘enforcement actions’.

The inspiration states, amongst different issues, that 39 unlawful streaming web sites, 21 Fb teams with an unlawful supply and ten open directories with e-books have been eliminated in 2021. The inspiration nonetheless has a case towards Ziggo concerning the latter, as a result of that supplier refuses to ahead Brein’s warning letters to the proprietor of an alleged open listing. One other main supplier would have executed that earlier than, however is now forwarding the warnings. It isn’t recognized which supplier that’s. 158 mirrors of The Pirate Bay have additionally been blocked.

Additionally, 650,169 unlawful search outcomes had been allegedly eliminated final 12 months. The inspiration says it reported greater than 21 million unlawful outcomes to Google final 12 months. Additionally, 38 main uploaders of copyright works are stated to have stopped previously 12 months. The inspiration additionally claims that it has “recognized 920 frequent and long-term uploaders.” Brein says it has made 54 settlements with recognized perpetrators in 2021.

The inspiration identifies torrent customers by accumulating IP addresses after which requesting suppliers to ahead a warning. This makes the inspiration depending on the cooperation of suppliers. Some suppliers refuse to ahead alerts. Brein has lawsuits pending about this, with which the inspiration desires to implement cooperation. A decide beforehand dominated in a case between Brein and Ziggo that Ziggo a license from the Dutch Knowledge Safety Authority would want to ahead the alerts, as a result of IP addresses are private information. Nevertheless, the court docket additionally dominated that forwarding a warning could be necessary as soon as suppliers have obtained that license.