[pp.int.general] Official Notice from Spanish Pirate Party

[Manuel "Zenislev_v" Barbero Valenzuela]

This is a Spanish Pirate Party official notice:

" During the last months we have attended with preoccupation the development
of
the first draft of Law of measures of Impulse of the Society of the
Information
(in ahead, LISI) due to numerous parts of its text that put in danger the
freedom of speech - when not fitting itself faithfully to article 20,5 of
the Spanish Constitution, that it establishes that seizure of publications,
recordings and other means of information will only be possible through
court
decision -.

This Tuesday, that preoccupation has become indignation, when was revealed
by
Internauts Association ( AI, acronym for "Asociacion de Internautas" ) what,

if confirmed, would be the penultimate liberticide attempt from the Spanish
Government: that performance rights organisations would be authorized by
law,
so they would be allowed not only to block internet services and web sites
without a civil action, but even interrupting internet service for those P2P

users that the performance rights organisations would decide.

Although some mass media warn of possible elimination of the most
controversial
article - just one among many other LISI articles that cause great concern
-,
the fact that during both last years, and with spanish laws 19/2006 and
23/2006, the Government has created a legal system by and for the
performance
rights organisations and even changing Criminal Procedure Law specifically
to
favor those organisations that defend the miscalled Intellectual Property,
makes us suspect that this temporary break only responds to the Government's

fears from a political cost in the close local elections, and it makes us
suspect that from the 1st of June they will strike back beside the
performance
rights organisations.

PIRATA will not accept any legislative initiative that violates the
procedural
guarantees of the citizens nor violates other fundamental citizens' rights,
since performance rights organisations are not incumbent when talking about
blocking websites nor interrupting internet connection to anyone, being this

solely possible through court decision; and it fills us with a great concern

when neither PP ( Spanish Popular Party ), nor IU ( Spanish comunist party
),
nor nationalist parties have still stand against this frustrated attempt of
violating our fundamental rights; every minute, hourly, every minute, every
hour, every day that goes by without those parties stand brings a brand new
shadow of doubt towards the attitude of parties that - we must not forget it

- refused to stand a year ago against the demands of the performance rights
organisation reflected in the new LPI ( Spanish acronym for the Intellectual

Property Law ).

According to all the former reasons, PIRATA will work during the next days
to
elaborate an rogatory to the Spanish Ombudsman, urging him to send an
unconstitutionality appeal to the Spanish Constitutional Court about several

sections of Law 19/2006 - that affects procedural guarantees and the power
of
the performance rights organisations facing prosecution of supposed illegal
acts - altogether with the 1/1996 Decree of the miscalled Intellectual
Property - both sections introduced by recent Law 23/2006 and other sections

that already were there -; and we offer in those demonstrations that, by
democratic ways and respecting the Law, contribute to unveil what's
happening
as well as leave crystal clear both Spanish Government and Parliament
members
that never will be found acceptable such attempts against our fundamental
rights."


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Manuel "Zenislev_v" Barbero
Vocal de la Junta Directiva Nacional del Partido Pirata Español
Coordinador del Comité Sectorial de Relaciones Internacionales
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