The owners of da Pirate Bay have said they will appeal that previously reported court ruling in the Netherlands last week, which ordered them to block access to their controversial BitTorrent tracking service to anyone using the internet in that country. The Dutch court gave TPB ten days to comply, and after that will charge the company $42,300 a day for everyday they continue to operate in the country.
The ruling was made in response to litigation filed by anti-piracy foundation BREIN against the Bay's founders. TPB's founders had previously said they were not given any notice of the legal action against them, and a BREIN spokesman said on Friday that he'd been told they now planned to appeal the ruling. It remains to be seen if continued legal attacks against TPB by the content industries actually result in the site being closed and have any impact on the plans of Swedish company GGF to buy the Bay and make it legit.