File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal

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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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A little bit of sanity... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-27 04:23 · Score: 5, Funny

...among a lot of insanity...let's just see what German...err, the EU has to say about that.
U.S. law still applies by crazyjj · 2012-09-27 04:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Portuguese citizens need to be reminded that they're still under the jurisdiction of U.S. law, and WILL be extradited to the U.S. for breaking any IP laws!

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1. Re:U.S. law still applies by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-27 04:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Seriously, look at a map
  I did, there's only two places on it: The US, and US Drone Territory.
2. Re:U.S. law still applies by TheGratefulNet · 2012-09-27 05:42 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  old and busted: calling non-US territory 'rest of world' or ROW.
  new hotness: calling the ROW 'fair game for US drones'.
  uhm, can we go back to the first one, again? maybe its not so bad.
  
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WHAT THE FU^$ by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-27 04:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Someone better stop this sh*t before it spreads!... Common sense that is!
Where's the RIAA/MPAA/1% at with damage control?
Oh thats right, they are buttering up the EU and other large groups instead of small member or non-member nations...
If they suddenly went POOF, I wouldn't have a care in the world
Hey.. by wbr1 · 2012-09-27 04:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Anyone got a lead on good Portuguese proxy servers I can torrent through?
Want to help me set some up?

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Portugal.... by wbr1 · 2012-09-27 04:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Enabling pirates since ~1577. Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fernandez

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Re:Common sense and reason by jamstar7 · 2012-09-27 05:03 · Score: 4, Funny

And drug abuse has not gone up as a result. Just think of the money the country saves on not prosecuting these cases. A small island of sanity.
Well, we can't have that. Cue 'discovery' of Al-Quaeda terrorist cells/terrorist training camps/oil/nuclear weapons programs/Julian Assange in Portugal in 5... 4... 3...

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Re:Common sense and reason by ZeroSumHappiness · 2012-09-27 05:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Any person using FTFY or editing my postings agrees to a US$50.00 prize

FTFY.
Re:LOL @ ACAPOR by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-27 05:36 · Score: 2, Funny

And foreigners.