Comments on: Judges Liken P2P To The Ancient Practice of Lending Books

By: monster

monster — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:03:24 +0000

<3 "likened file-sharing to the ancient practice of sharing books."

Ner..ner….nerdgasm.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:01:08 +0000

<3 "likened file-sharing to the ancient practice of sharing books."

Ner..ner….nerdgasm.

By: On the Spanish court ruling that likens P2P with lending books « ISP Liability

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:10:07 +0000

[...] P2P file sharing with the ancient practice of lending books (the CVCDGO case). The ruling was reported by Torrent Freak and echoed by many blogs as well as by many tweets. The Association of Research Libraries rightly [...]

By: The Law of the Horse 2: The Legend Continues « JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:27:06 +0000

[...] 2: The Legend Continues Posted by jetl under Uncategorized Leave a Comment In Spain, a court has decided a filesharing case in favor of the operators of a site linking to infringing content posted on [...]

By: Spain: Judges see file-sharing as public library-TorrentFreak « FACT – Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:41:30 +0000

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By: SwissPir8

SwissPir8 — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:36:00 +0000

Downloading *anything* is 100% legal too in Switzerland. Same goes for posession: e.g. police find you with 30’000 MP3 files on your laptop? No problem _AT ALL_.

For you to get into troubles they’d have to produce evidence that you were uploading that stuff. And they usually can’t. They don’t even care.

There was a recent case in Switzerland where a 18 years old girl was found guilty of having shared 4200 songs and 270 movies. Her punishment: a fine of CHF 400.– and two years of probation. Only if she gets caught again during those two years she might have to do 30 days of jail time (Swiss jails are like luxury hotels in other countries …).

And that ruling was heavily criticised here in Switzerland for being “too harsh”. :-)

4470 counts of copyright infringement. A fine of about CHF 0.08948 per infringement if you get caught uploading that stuff …

Hey, that’s a good price :)

Getting caught downloading stuff here is a total non-issue because as I said it’s 100% legal. Swiss ISP’s even use this for advertisements, e.g. “Your downloads will be faster with our network! Get your Cable modem here!”, even the government-owned Swisscom does that. :-)

By: DM

DM — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:05:46 +0000

“But don’t say that you should be able to walk to your nearest bookstore and take anything you want”

yes you can, there called libraries

By: Nerin Online - Snippets 12-06-2010

Nerin Online - Snippets 12-06-2010 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:37:44 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:08:37 +0000

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH LEGAL SYSTEM!

Damn, I’m proud of you, Spain!

By: Bookshelf: The Pirate’s Dilemma | WaFiTz!

Bookshelf: The Pirate’s Dilemma | WaFiTz! — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:32:52 +0000

[...] Spain is showing itself to be a much more progressive country in this respect. Could this truth spread to the rest of the Western world some day? I hope [...]