An Amsterdam court has ordered The Pirate Bay to block all Dutch visitors to its website, threatening the site administrators with daily fines for noncompliance.

Dutch antipiracy group Stichting BREIN, whose website is still down from an extended denial of service attack, filed a suit against the three Pirate Bay administrators who were found guilty earlier this year of aiding copyright infringement in Sweden—despite the fact that the three claim not to own the site. (They say it is owned by a Seychelles company called Reservella.)

None of the men showed up in the Dutch court, claiming they had heard nothing of the lawsuit (BREIN says that it contacted them through mail, e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook). Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay's most public face, also announced that he was filing a defamation suit (in Sweden) against Tim Kuik, BREIN's chief.

The court's injunction is preliminary—BREIN will need to apply for a permanent injunction before this one expires in two months. Sunde and his two co-defendants are ordered to block all Dutch traffic to their site and face a �30,000 fine per day for noncompliance.

Sunde claimed on his Twitter feed today that "none of us have access to even block everything, so good luck with that. I wrote a letter to the court telling them that." He's also looking for a "good lawyer that can work for free, since we have no cash."

Sunde and his codefendants were hit with a shared 30 million kronor fine at the end of their Swedish court case—that's worth about $4 million, or $1 million per defendant. But the Dutch fines for not implementing the required block could reach as high as �3 million ( $4.2 million). Ironically, The Pirate Bay crew could owe more cash in a case they claim not even to have been notified about than in their insanely high-profile "Spectrial" in Sweden earlier this year.