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:Common sense and reason by Hatta · 2012-09-27 04:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

Also, possession of personal quantities of just about every drug has been decriminalized in Portugal, for about 10 years now. The result has been a decrease in drug use and all associated problems.

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Re:A little bit of sanity... by fustakrakich · 2012-09-27 04:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

Yep, even their drug policy is a bit more same than the rest of the world's, and it's paying off with less addiction.
More file sharing will bring increased sales.

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