FC: Judge orders XS4ALL to remove two pages, mirror sites sprout

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:47:40 +0200
From: Karin Spaink <kspaink () xs4all nl>
Organization: Marcab Inc.
To: declan () well com
CC: Sjoera Nas <sjoera () xs4all nl>
Subject: Re: FC: XS4ALL sued over hosting "Radikal" radical-left magazine
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020415121308.024ced50 () mail well com>

On 15-4-02 at 21:14, Declan McCullagh kindly wrote:

> Subject: XS4ALL sued after 5 years over Radikal-case

Update:

The court issued an intermediary ruling, ordering XS4all to
immediately take down two of the offending pages. Each day
of prologued existence of the pages would cost XS4all
€10,000, no maximun stated. The full ruling - which is
likely to reflect the intermediary one - will be pronounced
on April 25.

XS4all immediately took down the offending pages.

During the proceedings, Deutsche Bahn's lawyer stated that
his client would also report the Radikal mirror to the Dutch
authorities. That might create quite an interesting
situation: imagine that the prosecutor does indeed sue and
the pages are sunsequently acquitted. Then we would have a
penal ruling which states that the pages are quite ok, and a
civil one in which they were ordered to be removed. (The
prosecutor might even decide to not prosecute at all.)
Unfortunately, any proceedings with the prosecutor will take
quite some time and might not even start before the appeal
that XS4all will certainly initiate has been decided upon.


Meanwhile, a number of mirrors have sprung up. Indymedia.nl
has the following list:

 http://squat.net/radikal
 http://radikal.sbip.nl
 http://www.contrast.org/radikal
 http://www.ecn.org/radikal/
 http://www.connix.com/~harry/radikal/index.htm
 http://radikal.autono.net/
 http://www.cyberpass.net/radikal
 http://catalog.com/jamesd/radikal/
 http://www.df.lth.se/~micke/not_my_political_views/radikal/
 http://www.cb3rob.net/~merijn89/radikal/
 http://radikal.linefeed.org/

Indymedia.nl even broadcasts a link to a zipped version of
the site and invites people to make a new mirror:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=172146&group=webcast


- K -




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