Tim Kuik News Today

BREIN CEO Tim Kuik has retired, shutting down an impressive career that pre-dates the world wide web. Kuik started working at a home video distributor in the…

BREIN reports that several Usenet uploaders have settled for thousands of euros after being tracked down by the anti-piracy group.

Operation ran out of Den Helder, Netherlands, data center

Although the Dutch government makes it difficult to warn persistent pirates, the Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN is eager to do so. A bulk notice

A court of appeal in the Netherlands has ruled that in specific cases, ISPs can be required to forward copyright warnings to online pirates

Dutch movie production company Farmhouse TV & Film is demanding €200,000 from YouTube after a user uploaded a pirated copy of the film "Redbad." The video in question was viewed half a million times. Although YouTube took the movie offline when it was reported, the producer wants the video service to take responsibility.

After 14 years, defunct Usenet provider News-Service Europe has won its long-standing legal dispute with local anti-piracy group BREIN.

A case involving a set-top box seller, some Kodi addons, and the EU's highest court, led to civil action against 370 IPTV sellers since 2017.

BREIN has decimated the Dutch private torrent tracker scene. The anti-piracy group tracked down a man who coded and maintained site scripts.

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN plans to request a court order to block Z-Library domain names, if the site returns on the surface web..