It sounds nice but it is absolutely untrue. European law is NOT copied from old western movies..
And it would be very strange to be detained by a civil court. I don't think they do that.
What strikes me mostly as odd is that TPB could probably have gotten top-notch lawyers to represent them for free, as this is such a high profile case.

And as someone with a very close relative a victom of a sexual related crime, i hope no-one elses daughter meets that guy after he has left jail (served 6 years). He's really a charm, and can be very convincing when he has a gun in his hand. Jail may have cured him, but about 5 to 10% of these people do it again within 5 years after release from prisson. I think this one will. Where I live, we don't get to know where these people live after leaving jail, and with this guy that worries me.. He knows where _WE_ live...

But for sure, public exposing their whereabouts should be for the real dangerous cases only.

The server is not the issue. The judge ruled that copyright infringement is made (also) in the netherlands, and that TPB act as a broker to that copyright infringement. Since TPB didn't even bother to contradict that... they lost. Since they didn't even gave the judge a chance to ask them weather blocking dutch access was possible or not, they lost on that one too. Now it is _their_ problem how to obey with that. Not showing up is just a stupid strategy...

This is what the dutch got from it

I'll have a Martini James.
Pulsated, not stirred!

How this gets moderated insightful is beyond me. You consider 'dangerous' as a binary: Either you are and you should be locked up, or you are not and you should have all the rights that everyone else has. The real world is just not that simple, and an in-between form (you are not in prisson but you get watched very carefully) may allow offenders to return to freedom at least in some sense, while the higher probability of this person to commit a crime again is also addressed. Oh, and should you ever have a daughter, they come without the right developement tools so they may very well end up a little different than you hoped them to be.

And even their robots have Aunt Irma visiting....

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