Anti-Piracy Group In Spain Fined For Bad Faith Actions Against File Sharing Systems
from the another-one-for-spain dept
We were just talking about how the justice system in Spain seems at least somewhat more reasonable on the subject of file sharing, and here's yet another example. A court has overturned injunctions on two file sharing sites and fined the anti-piracy group that brought charges against them in the first place for "acting in bad faith." The case was dismissed because the court realized (yet again) that linking to infringing material is not infringing itself. But, the "bad faith" part involved the anti-piracy group, SGAE, tricking the operator of the sites into believing that two SGAE employees were representatives of the court and had the right to search his home and confiscate computer hard drives. We've seen such things allowed elsewhere, so it's nice that the Spanish courts are letting private anti-piracy groups know that they are not law enforcement.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoayLCRkF4I
Someone coming into my house without a clear writ of seizure/warrant/or my permission is going to get ventilated.
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Now with Sweden becoming more "Americanized" it's comforting to see at least one Country pushing back against corporations in favour of the ordinary person.
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Does Spain Actually "Get It"?
The release restates just how the MPAA would like to influence the laws domestically and abroad:
This paragraph once again shows just how "special" they think they are. While everyone else has to rely on personally funded civil litigation to prove a case where their rights have been violated, they are pressing governments to "just forget about" the burden of proof and become their personal IP policemen.
But they go on to call out Canada, Russia, China and Spain as an axis-of-evil, and have a go at the "situation" in Spain:
Of course the "cooperation" they are after is the ability to cut off Internet connections at the drop of a dime.
To me it seems like this level of shameless belligerence in public truly is only matched by well connected Mafia-like organizations. And considering the behavior illustrated in the linked article I would not at all be surprised if the SGAE is just a local puppet of a world-wide criminal organization with intent to directly manipulate the legal systems of the "first world" to their bidding.
It sounds to me like the Spanish either a) "Get it", and are offended by a commercial enterprise trying to usurp their legal system, or, b) were largely ignored during the most recent rounds of political payoffs and are allowing the public image of a) to take hold.
Either way. HAHahahAhahahaha. Not yet above the law in Spain.
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Re: Does Spain Actually "Get It"?
The World Is The MPAA's
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Didn't spain just declare internet access a right. So cooperation with the ISP's is pretty much a moot point.
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Anti-Piracy Group In Spain Fined For Bad Faith Actions Against File Sharing Systems
One time only I will say: Kudos to the court.
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what happens when the warrantless times come
now anyone posing as htem could trick you
so were back to a need of oversight and control of said situations and you can see some real BAD BAD people dooing a lot of scamming
thank you conservatives for another well htought of law, and the spying of isps on people is so vague that any reason can be uysed even though the aim is to go after porn sicko types.
SAD sad that kids will trip there censors off unless htey already are spying and know where they are going.
"wink wink, nudge nudge say no more"
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Messing with the **AA
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