Dutch music site loses in court, goes offline

A Dutch music Web site linking to MP3 files has to stop promoting the infringement of artist rights and copyrights, the Dutch court of appeals said in a ruling that overturned an earlier one in favor of the site.

The Web site, operated by Techno Design, had been taken down on Monday after the ruling on Friday, which said failure to comply with the injunction would lead to fines of 10,000 euros ($12,590) per day, or 1,000 euros per infringing file.

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