Great, yet another country is giving in to those assholes from the MPAA and RIAA: Spain has now adopted some new laws that outlaw P2P sharing and even makes Internet providers potential criminals by saying they can be held responsible as well: there is also to be a tax on all forms of blank media, including flash memory drives. Great. I guess the they never heard of legal filesharing (like the distribution of ISO images for Linux distro’s). As Monty Python said: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition”.
Btw: we have such a tax in Holland as well, but it is easy to circumvent it: just buy your DVD’s and such in Germany through www.opus.nl.
It has been only a few weeks ago that one of the biggest websites that has torrents pointing to all kinds of illegal stuff was taken down: The Pirate Bay (TPB). The cool thing was off course that TPB was up and running again within a couple of days (you gotta love the Internet!). And, what’s really cool; they have a video showing the asshole cops that raided their provider 🙂
Raid on The Pirate Bay