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And where internet providers owned by publicly traded corporations actually spend time and money fighting in court.

And where an internet provider not even included in the original case joined in only for the pursuing justice. XS4ALL has always claimed to be fighting for a free internet, with this case, they proved it to me.

Apparently the judge who issued the original verdict had connections with BREIN' lawyer.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-censorship-judge-is-corru...

Yeah , this has been well documented everywhere, including in discussions on HN.

I work for the parent company of Ziggo. Good to feel like I was somehow connected to this victory, in however a small way! :)

It's scary that the fees where so high. (Not in the sense "I am a corp, I throw millions in my legal dept", but in the sense "if I, a person, gets sued, I am so fing fed".)