[pp.int.general] Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software

[Philip Hunt]

2009/9/18 Guilherme Bellia <guilhermebellia at gmail.com>:
> After an earlier decision failed to reach its objective, this week a
> Brazilian court made an unprecedented ruling against file-sharing clients.
> Following legal action by anti-piracy groups against a website offering a
> file-sharing client for download, the court decided that software which
> allows users to share music via P2P is illegal.

What a clueless idiot. What will the judge ban next -- email? ftp?
external hard disks? All can be used to share files. Still at least
the judge gave an inadvertant lesson in the need for the pirate party.

-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK