A new law in Spain 86'es P2P networks, bans ISPs from "facillitating filesharing" and imposes a blanket tax on blank media.
"The tax will go into a fund which will be shared among copyright holders to compensate for piracy."
But, the story goes on, according to a European Commission statement, "The logic of levies would also have to be applied to broadband and infrastructure service providers including telecommunications providers that carry content."
Yikes, this bill sounds like it was drafted by the record labels themselves. The scary thing is, for most crazy bits of legislation like this one, there is a bit of public outcry and at least some internet coverage of the badly formed bill as it makes its way into badly formed law. Not such in this case, as avid followers of P2P news got their first taste of this new law only this week.
[via P2Pnet]
Spain Outlaws P2P Networks
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. You see, its funny listening to all this stuff about P2P up in canada, as were basically unaffected. We can download as much content as we want for personal use, and its considered "Fair Use" up here.
Awesome Times.
Posted at 4:51PM on Jul 27th 2006 by Acne Treatment
3. That could never happen in America either our right to assemble in groups would be violated.
The Bearshare community could do as the winMX users are doing and modify the bearshare software to recognize users as hosts " no company " means " user hosts " on a voluntary basis some users provide their computers as host hubs. WinMX.com is gone but the network still exists user supported to its core.
Posted at 9:26PM on Aug 13th 2006 by chatroom adict
1. encryption will be used, thus restarting the cat and moouse game.
Posted at 12:25PM on Jul 8th 2006 by charles rodriguez