The copyright organization BREIN will start with a new one on 15 December information project. BREIN uses special software to search for Dutch IP addresses that are regularly involved in infringing uploads.
The foundation will send the people behind these IP addresses ‘educational warnings’. BREIN first requests the cooperation of the relevant providers to forward that e-mail. “In case of refusal, we will request (or claim) the corresponding email addresses so that we can send the alerts ourselves.
Seeders
According to BREIN, these are not incidental downloaders, but frequent Bittorrent uploaders. These are not the people who, for example, put a film or series online as the first source, but people who maintain the exchange of illegal material by ‘seeding’. Whoever downloads a file via BitTorrent often uploads simultaneously to the other people who download the same. For example, by connecting many downloaders with each other, a movie can be downloaded faster. According to BREIN, the seeders act as ‘lubricant’: without them, the distribution of illegal content would be less easy.
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Only warn
At this stage, according to BREIN, it is only a matter of warning, but people are pointed out in the e-mails that enforcement may take place in the future. Whether the foundation actually does this depends, according to BREIN, on the effect of these warnings.
BREIN says that the people who first distribute the material online are already being ‘successfully enforced’.
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