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Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing
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.
Well, it's also the same goverment that is giving terrorists the rights they steal from car drivers.
And, yep, don't forget about illegal political detentions.
TFA mentions right there in the first sentence, "unauthorzied" p2p has been made illegal.
The OMGWTF dumb-as-a-brick type of sensationalism of slashdot entries, with editors that neither read the articles, nor semm to understand even the tiniest amount of their own subject matter is why I visit slashdot less and less, why Digg now has more page views, and why I only read comments at +4 up if I do bother to read the brainless crap that most of the comments are (including my own because if slashdot couldn't give a fuck about me and thinks it's ok to insult my intelligence, then I can't be bothered to act differently)
Slashdot is becoming the geek version of trailer trash.
Yeah, but they're all dicks like Miguel de Icaza.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Read the article and discover the truth for yourself.
You are the one making the allegation. Care to defend your position? Or will you just continue saying that something somewhere supports it?
The headline is a lie. The brief is a lie.
Since lying is a matter of intent, what evidence do you have that any (allegedly) false part of the article or headline is intentionally so?
I may just know what I'm talking about when I express my disgust at this slide into mediocrity and irrelavance
Karma whore
First they surrender to the terrorists, now to the ??AA?
Most definitely not mas macho...