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Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing To Lending Books
Dan Fuhry writes "A three-judge panel in the Provincial Court of Madrid has closed a case that has been running since 2005, ruling that the accused are not guilty of any copyright infringement on the grounds that their BitTorrent tracker did not distribute any copyrighted material, and they did not generate any profit from their site: '[t]he judges noted that all this takes places between many users all at once without any of them receiving any financial reward.' This implies that the judges are sympathetic to file sharers. The ruling essentially says that file sharing is the digital equivalent of lending or sharing books or other media. Maybe it's time for all them rowdy pirates to move to Spain."
Yep, expect international pressure to be put on Spain to change their laws.
Don't knock it if it works. Pressuring Spain yields results. Seriously. Try it some time. Blow up some trains in Spain. Then before their election tell them you'll do it again if they don't elect a different government.
the importance of this is pretty much nothing. no one gives a fuck about what Spain is doing. when an important country like the US or UK does something like this, then it will matter. until then you fuckers can just suck a dick.
I love how nearly everyone posting on slashdot tries to justify their actions. What you are doing is stealing; plain and simple! You can rationalize it any way you want, come up with any argument to explain how it's "okay, but in the end it's still stealing. Inside your head, where it's just you and your conscience, you know I'm right.
Mind you, the green 100€ notes are still worth more than any currently used dollar bill.
100€ > $1?
WHODA THUNK IT