[pp.int.general] 21 spanish P2P portals are shutdown: Legal attack against them

[Findeton]

You've got the piece of
news<http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/policia/clausura/21/webs/gran/operacion/pirateria/musica/cine/elpepucul/20070328elpepucul_4/Tes>in
spanish. Resuming it and translating: there are 21 P2P portals, ten
detainees (all of them have been released under charges) and 31 involved
people in the police operation. The police has informed that the detainees
were involved or webmasters of the websites and they also recorded sound in
the cinemas, which they later added to the films that were in other
language, and they then released the 'spanish' version to the net via P2P.
This investigation started after the reports/complaints made bye SGAE and
PROMUSICAE (among other groups, all of them are our spanish RIAA and MPAA)
back in July 2006.

The thing is that the police thinks that they made profit on the films
through the ads on their webpage, although... they were only making money of
the .torrent files (which have no copyright btw), not of the film. And,
well, this is a new case here in Spain, nothing like this had ever happened
before.
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