Can this be true?
A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
My initial reaction is “you stupid fucking idiots, you’ve been spending too much time in the sun!!”, however i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume there’s more to the story that this article tells. Afterall the law as exlained here would ban people from sending files THEY created themselves to someone via P2P. Now surely the Spanish aren’t stupid enough to implement such a law as that. Are they? Interesting to see how they plan to enforce it.
I notice they’ve also introduced a small tax for all blank media. Bastards.
Blank media tax is over here too… The same for the recording equipments…
They say it’s to protect the artists’ copyright…