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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."
But, but, but,,, this really goes against American principles and the way we live here. Therefore, it has to be wrong ! ;-)
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
The music biz saw the light. Fight it from the start before it becomes commonplace and everyone considers it normal, if not even a right to... oh... erh...
Can you get back to me later, I have to redo that speech.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's straight to the top of the "priority watch list" for you, Spain.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Call it "Port Freedom". Nobody would wanna tangle with that, or are you against Freedom?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What about OSS? When people like a certain open-source application, they donate money to keep it alive.
"we've got trenchcoats and bad attitudes" - John Constantine, HellBlazer
heat, tourism, and angry women. and computers. and filesharing. great combination !
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