File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 27, 2012 @04:17AM from the as-long-as-it-involves-kale dept.

New submitter M0j0_j0j0 writes "After receiving 2000 complaints regarding 'illegal file sharing' from ACAPOR regarding P2P networks, the Portuguese prosecutor refused to take the case into court on the premise that file sharing is not illegal in the territory if files are for personal and not commercial use. The court also stated that the complaints had, as sole evidence, the IP address of users, and that it is a wrong statement to assume an IP address is directly related to one individual. TorrentFreak has a piece in English with more details (original source in Portuguese)."

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Re:A little bit of sanity... by mumblestheclown · 2012-09-27 07:09 · Score: -1, Flamebait

TheGratefulNet: nice to see you following in the logic of mugabe and his land redistribution. to say that your populist views would be economically ruinous as they are tragically naive is putting it too mildly. i mean, why stop at copyright items? why not give away all the coca cola in portugal too- after all, the marginal cost of production is nearly nil and only a few people are employed in the industry.