As a result, they face a daily payment of EUR3,000 (?2,724) per link, in what is the first instance of the three not responding to a judgement against them.

Dutch anti-piracy unit BREIN was forced to serve the verdict - that the founder's are wholly responsible for the site's content - publicly via Twitter and the national press yesterday because the founders' whereabouts are unknown and their lawyers have refused to receive the judgement on their behalf.

BREIN managing director ...