Comments on: Spanish judge: Non-commercial filesharing is legal

By: redundante

redundante — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:14:44 +0000

spanish copyright management industry are pushing the spanish government to regulate new laws that will force the people to pay all kind of taxes for ISP services and data storage gadgets. So, maybe Judge Paz Aldecoa is just a Robin Hood

By: Bullet (The Netherlands)

Bullet (The Netherlands) — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:28:14 +0000

Spain and Canada is not the only one. It’s also perfectly legal in The Netherlands (for personal use). The dutch judge said that “Heh, who gives a f**k :) “

By: Squ33

Squ33 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:00:45 +0000

I’m so glad that Spain understands the difference between people who make money from pirated software and music, and the people who just want a copy of it for themselves. I mean I don’t see the police in my country (USA) going after my friends that let me barrow one of their music CDs to listen to and make a copy of for my own personal privae use.

By: Daz

Daz — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:22:11 +0000

OOOOOOooops forgot, u need to use this http://www.packetnews.com/ to find your file.

By: Daz

Daz — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:19:26 +0000

Try MIRC,http://www.mirc.com/ its free and the feds cant touch you!

By: Hannes

Hannes — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:14:34 +0000

But some P2P programs do send the files via many links (other users) and don’t tell the uploader who the downloader is. That might count as “IP hiding”. ;)

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:02:41 +0000

[quote comment="19312"]“older P2P software” the names of the files traded and IP addresses were publicly available to them.

Is there new p2p software that hides IP?[/quote]

No, not that I know of…

By: madhouse

madhouse — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:03:06 +0000

“older P2P software” the names of the files traded and IP addresses were publicly available to them.

Is there new p2p software that hides IP?

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:02:37 +0000

heh, it’s about time they got a good slap in the face. Of course, all it takes is a little pressure from the us and presto, spanish law might change, although, at the moment, the us isnt exactly the favorite of the spanish, so it might be a little while before something like that happens.

By: Segovia

Segovia — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:02:04 +0000

FYI – Spain is not the only one. It’s also perfectly legal in Canada (for personal use). The canadian judge said that “It’s no different than a copier machine in a library.”