Spanish P2P raids

Written by Ernesto on April 08, 2006 

The Spanish police made 15 p2p related arrests today, and closed down several BitTorrent, eMule and Edonkey sites. The victims are accused of facilitating “copyright infringement”. Today’s arrests are the result of a large scale investigation by several Spanish “copyright protection” organizations that started in October 2005.

The association for internet users (Association of Internauts) criticizes todays actions and Victor Domingo the president of the AI said that the press-release sent by the police is full of errors and causes confusion.

Domingo criticized “panic” generated by the Police with this operation and stated:

only a Judge can sentence what is illicit or not, not the Police, neither the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) nor a minister”

The police report claims that 350.000.000 illegal files are shared per year in Spain.

The president of the AI accused the Police to facilitate information that is practically impossible to confirm, and invited to the police show some proof.

The following sites were named in the police report:

naiadadonkey.com, indicedonkey.com, ps2rip.net, emule24horas.com, emule24horas.net, emule24horas.org, mp3-descargas.com, exeemspain.com, portalvcd.com, pctorrent.com, pctorrent.net, pctorrent.org, pctracker.com, pctrecord.com, tododatos.com, spanishare.com, comunidadspanishare.com

link (Spanish)

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4 Responses

1 Apr 08, 2006 at 21:35 by falafelboy

Im worried. This may represent a momentum that the new conservative gvnt in canada could take advantage of to do the same.

2 Apr 10, 2006 at 14:50 by T

And if we don’t use p2p for copyright what will happen?

3 Jul 11, 2006 at 22:42 by danyadri

este gobierno q yo vote nos esta dejando sin libertades nos persigue por fumar nos persigue por beber nos persigue por comunicarnos en p2p que coño de libertd es esta cada dia tengo mas edad y esta banda hace q me sienta como un crio sin cerebro …………que me dejen n paz
esta claro que la cuestion es tocar los cojones yo no les voto mas q les den

4 Mar 19, 2008 at 01:09 by ole

only a Judge can sentence what is illicit or not, not the Police, neither the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) nor a minister”

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