Spanish Film Archivist Faces Prison and €870,000 Fine Over ‘Non-Commercial’ Movie Site

A Spanish content creator who ran a film preservation website together with more than a dozen others, is now the sole defendant in a prosecution where he faces a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence and €870,000 in damages. "El Feo," as the defendant is known online, fought back at trial. Among other things, he stressed that the film archive was a non-commercial project he was no longer actively involved in at the time of his arrest.