Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing

Section_Ei8ht writes "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." Here is our coverage of the tax portion of this law.

And if you do use P2P....

[rramdin]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I wonder what the cost will be to set up the infrastructure required to enforce and prosecute these laws.

Equally intelligent

[gnarlin]

I have an equally intelligent proposal for spain. Ban http and ftp!
It is a well known goodfact that copyrighted material which is not transfered via p2p is mostly transfered via http and/or ftp, so why not just ban those protocols and be done with it! After all, seperating babies and their bathwaters respectively is just to ardious a task for the simple minds of government officials.

Re:So let me get this straight

[QuantumG]

What's the point, it'll be in spanish.

Re:This just in

[Joebert]

I'm sorry to inform you, but you are wrong MrSquirrel.
It should actually be SLY tunnels.

That's it

[Anonymous Coward]

I quit. Me, my family and friends will never again dine at Taco Bell.

Re:A blind squirrel finds an acorn, news@11 !

[Anonymous Coward]

Ayn Rand says something right for once. Given how much she'd written, it was bound to happen eventually!

Wish I could say the same for you, Chomsky. Somehow I doubt you'd know anything about Ayn Rand if not for Wikipedia.

But keep those typing monkeys in your brain tap, tap, tapping away... They have an infinite amount of time to try and come up with something worthwhile.

Re:Not a dupe.

[linvir]

what constitutes "unauthorized"?

More FUD. Unauthorized means breaches the copyright of the big media. You know it and I know it. Are you really suggesting that an overbroad law can be abused? Please! People who work in democratic governments are morally infallible, by mere definition! I, for one, welcome my new democratically elected overlords! May they never send me to jail!

Re:SENSATIONALIST CRAP and LIES

[linvir]

The editors are the same totally perfect gods among men that they've always been. The problem is with the submitters. Since our wise masters have such little time to spend on such mortal concerns as 'checking the factual accuracy of submissions', some of the more malicious elements of the internet are trying to abuse their trust, and poison our minds with these lies.

Nananananananana editors! Nanananananananana editors! Editors! Editors! Batman!

did you just...

[juletre]

did you just make a copyright infringement?
When did Slashdot become a safe haven for people like you? :)

Re:Not About Lawsuits

[Anonymous Coward]

and in other news, Spanish hackers develope a P2P app that runs entirely over port 80.

And in even later news, Spanish ISPs block all incoming port 80 traffic.