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Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nobody-expects-the-spanish-p2p-ban dept.

Section_Ei8ht writes "Spanish Congress has made it a civil offense to download anything via p2p networks, and a criminal offense for ISP's to allow users to file-share, even if the use is fair. There is also to be a tax on all forms of blank media, including flash memory drives. I guess the move towards distributing films legally via BitTorrent is a no go in Spain." Here is our coverage of the tax portion of this law.

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  1. And if you do use P2P.... by rramdin · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

    I wonder what the cost will be to set up the infrastructure required to enforce and prosecute these laws.

  2. Equally intelligent by gnarlin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have an equally intelligent proposal for spain. Ban http and ftp!
    It is a well known goodfact that copyrighted material which is not transfered via p2p is mostly transfered via http and/or ftp, so why not just ban those protocols and be done with it! After all, seperating babies and their bathwaters respectively is just to ardious a task for the simple minds of government officials.

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  3. did you just... by juletre · · Score: 3, Funny

    did you just make a copyright infringement?
    When did Slashdot become a safe haven for people like you? :)

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  4. Re:Not About Lawsuits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    and in other news, Spanish hackers develope a P2P app that runs entirely over port 80.

    And in even later news, Spanish ISPs block all incoming port 80 traffic.