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On 29 November 2001, the District Court of Amsterdam ordered a shutdown of the activities of Kazaa in the course of interlocutory proceedings. Kazaa is one of the recent peer-to-peer (P2P) programs enabling users to share computer files over the Internet. The Court also ordered Buma/Stemra, the Dutch music-rights organisation, to continue negotiations with Kazaa over a worldwide streaming-licence for the music of Buma/Stemra members. Kazaa accused Buma/Stemra of breaking off the negotiations at an advanced stage. Buma/Stemra in turn asked the Court to order Kazaa to take appropriate measures to...

Although adopted on 15 December 2000, the Second Report on the Netherlands by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) was only recently released to the public. The Report contains, inter alia, recommendations relating to the media. These recommendations are twofold. The first calls for "stricter compliance" with the self-regulatory regime that prevails in Dutch journalism. Among the provisions of this regime are the stipulation that a person's race, nationality, religion, etc., should only be mentioned when relevant and the stipulation that the soliciting of immigrants' viewpoints...

On 27 September 2001, the author of the infamous "Kournikova" virus was given an unconditional sentence of 150 hours of community service by a police court in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The fact that he was a first-time offender and that the damage caused seemed to have been limited, influenced the length and nature of the sentence. The virus, which has been labelled the second-largest ever to be released, infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide from 12 February of this year. It was called the "Kournikova" virus, as it was hidden in an e-mail with a picture of tennis star Anna...

After long and difficult negotiations between the public broadcasting organisation VRT and the Flemish Government, a new agreement has been reached on the specific rules and conditions for the allocation of public finances to the VRT. According to Articles 15-17 of the Flemish Broadcasting Act, such an agreement between the VRT and the Flemish Government is necessary for each new period of five years. The new executive agreement will replace the agreement for 1997-2001. The agreement emphasises the "mission statement" of the VRT, as formulated in the Flemish Broadcasting Act (Article 8), with...

On 19 June 2001, the Commissariaat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority) announced its decision to ban the regional public broadcasting station L1 from the further exploitation of its commercial Internet site, www.L1boulevard.nl. The site is a virtual shopping mall, where regional companies can place their latest offers and consumers may search for desired products and services. It is a cooperative venture with the Belgian regional broadcaster TV Limburg, which has an almost identical site and a link to its Dutch counterpart. According to the Dutch Media Authority, this kind of commercial...