Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain

[wraggster]

Sqwuzzy notes a judge's ruling in Spain that makes that country one of the most lenient in the world as respects sharing copyrighted material over P2P networks.
"The entertainment industries in Spain must be progressively tearing their hair out in recent months as they experience setback after setback. ... After Spain virtually ruled out imposing a '3-strikes' regime for illicit file-sharers, the entertainment industries said they would target 200 BitTorrent sites instead. Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit via P2P doesn't breach copyright laws and sites should be presumed innocent until proved otherwise."
This ruling occurred in a pre-trial hearing; the case will still go to trial.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07...Legal-In-Spain

[VampDude]

Most of the worlds illegal software/files are from Spain...

But then are some of the best coders (DarkAlex), ones we hold much respect for the awesome homebrew releases.

I think Spain should have strict rules on copyrighted materials by targeting the individuals aswell as the sites, because they damage each respectful industry by not going for the direct source.