From: Matt Helton <mch2117@columbia.edu>
  To  : <CPC@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:49:22 -0400

Spain outlaws P2P

I thought this was interested albeit slightly outside the scope of the
class.  As a disclaimer, aside from reading this headline and paragraph I
have not looked into this to verify its veracity.

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/06/29/0217250.shtml

"Spanish Congress has made it a civil offense to download anything via p2p
networks, and a criminal offense for ISP's to allow users to file-share,
even if the use is fair. There is also to be a tax on all forms of blank
media, including flash memory drives. I guess the move towards distributing
films legally via BitTorrent is a no go in Spain."



Matt


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