The BREIN Foundation will warn people who repeatedly post copyright protected work on the internet. It concerns, for example, films, series and books. The information project will start on December 15, the foundation reports on the website.
BREIN uses special software to search Dutch IP addresses that often put material online that infringes rights. These are works that are popular on the Dutch market, “preferably Dutch original work”.
The foundation wants to send informative warnings for at least six months. This project is not about people who sometimes download something, but about frequent bit-torrent uploaders. These are not so much people who are the first to put a film online, but who by ‘seeding’ themselves maintain the exchange of illegal material.
Seeding is done through a torrent program. After (or during) the download, the user’s computer is used to upload the film or series to others who want to download the video. If more people are seeding a movie, a movie can download faster.
According to BREIN, these seeders act as ‘lubricants’, because without them the functioning of illegal content cannot survive. The foundation says that the people who put the material online first are already being “successfully enforced”.
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 will actually do so depends on the effect of these warnings.
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