Hamburg,
Germany – A
German court has granted a preliminary injunction against the current
Germany-based Web hosts of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak
reported.
Studio lobby group the Motion Picture Association petitioned a court
in Hamburg
for an injunction against CB3ROB Ltd, operators of the CyberBunker Web hosting
service.
The court said that CyberBunker must specifically remove links to
torrents purporting to facilitate downloads of "The Bounty Hunter,"
"Alice in Wonderland," "Our Family Wedding," "Green
Zone," "Repo Men" and "Cop Out."
CyberBunker now must
either disconnect The Pirate Bay entirely, or else The Pirate Bay must remove
those specific torrents to comply with terms of the court’s order.
TorrentFreak
noted that the court is empowered to exact fines of up to 250,000 euros
($313,000) against CB3ROB for each of the films listed in the complaint, and
potentially jail CB3ROB managing director Sven Olaf Kamphuis.
Similar actions
have been taken in the past against The Pirate Bay’s Web hosts, which have
resulted in the site’s being moved to servers with another hosting company, often
in another country.
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(TorrentFreak)
