Spain makes P2P filesharing illegal and kills legit Internet usage?
P2P filesharing peer-to-peer, posted: 29-Jun-2006 20:23
The MPAA is probably dancing a jig over Spain making peer-to-peer filesharing illegal last Thursday, but did the Spanish parliament really stop to think about how the ban will be enforced?
Instead of directly going after the filesharers themselves the Spanish have decided to make it a criminal offence for Internet providers to facilitate filesharing. It's not clear how "facilitate filesharing" is defined, but if it simply means "allowing it to happen", ISPs in Spain are in for some massive headaches. Blocking P2P is far from easy because it's possible to "hide" the traffic by using standard Internet protocol ports (like http and ftp) and encryption.
Spain seemed to be on the right track when it decided to levy a tax on recordable digital media. The tax would be paid back to copyright holders, and is probably a far more sensible way to compensate them than introducing Draconian laws that will see ISPs in the dock for failing to hold back the P2P tide.
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Instead of directly going after the filesharers themselves the Spanish have decided to make it a criminal offence for Internet providers to facilitate filesharing. It's not clear how "facilitate filesharing" is defined, but if it simply means "allowing it to happen", ISPs in Spain are in for some massive headaches. Blocking P2P is far from easy because it's possible to "hide" the traffic by using standard Internet protocol ports (like http and ftp) and encryption.
Spain seemed to be on the right track when it decided to levy a tax on recordable digital media. The tax would be paid back to copyright holders, and is probably a far more sensible way to compensate them than introducing Draconian laws that will see ISPs in the dock for failing to hold back the P2P tide.
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Megaupload and the US grand jury
Filesonic disables file sharing; due to MegaUpload?
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Comment by RaF, on 30-Jun-2006 03:01
"Spain seemed to be on the right track when it decided to levy a tax on recordable digital media"
It's wonderfull that I have to pay if I save my personal photos into Cds because someone think that ALL cd and DVD media are used to burn copyrighted media.
Only a silly person could think something like that, but all our Spanish politics are proud to be silly.
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Comment by freitasm, on 29-Jun-2006 21:29
This just show how legislators can be insensible to modern technology. P2P has nothing to do with illegal content copy. If this is the case they should make Windows Media Player, the Apple iPod, and even the CD Recorder illegal.
Clueless people.