Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 10, 2009 @04:33AM from the presumed-innocent dept.

Sqwuzzy notes a judge's ruling in Spain that makes that country one of the most lenient in the world as respects sharing copyrighted material over P2P networks. "The entertainment industries in Spain must be progressively tearing their hair out in recent months as they experience setback after setback. ... After Spain virtually ruled out imposing a '3-strikes' regime for illicit file-sharers, the entertainment industries said they would target 200 BitTorrent sites instead. Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit via P2P doesn't breach copyright laws and sites should be presumed innocent until proved otherwise." This ruling occurred in a pre-trial hearing; the case will still go to trial.

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Practice! by agnosticanarch · 2009-07-10 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

I want you to say:
Lack of gain
in Spain
Drives RIAA mainly
INSANE!!
fifty times. You'll get much further with the Lord if you learn not to offend His ears. ;)

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Re:I heard the same thing about Sweden... by LordEd · 2009-07-10 05:14 · Score: 5, Funny

The article was just saying that torrent sites are presumed innocent until proven guilty. I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition.
Re:I heard the same thing about Sweden... by Soul-Burn666 · 2009-07-10 05:50 · Score: 5, Funny

And as a meta-comment for all the redundant ones:
No one (sic: everyone) expects the spammish repetition!

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