[pp.int.general] A spanisch sad history

[Amelia Andersdotter]

The way I understood the tweets earlier today CiU made a few demands on the
law in the last minute that PSOE couldn't possibly agree to so the approval
process is delayed?

I wrote some about the #sindegate and the cables on Sunday:
http://stenskott.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/sustainable-economy/

It also explains why the Spanish are in contact with the US ambassadors -
there's some really old and ugly unilateral trade pressure from the US at
play there, but it's been going on since 1974 and was the primary reason the
BRI-countries eventually agreed to including intellectual property rights in
the preliminary world trade organisation discussions in 1986.

On 21 December 2010 22:50, Gabriel Serrano <gabriel.serrano at partidopirata.es
> wrote:

> One of the cables revealed by Wikileaks, tells how the United States
> Government issued the Government of Spain to move forward looking for a law
> to control “illegal” downloading.
>
> As it seems, the Government of Spain has obeyed the order.
>
> One year ago our Government proposed the new “Sustainable Economy Act” in
> which a particularly interesting paragraph was sliced. This paragraph knows
> as “Sinde-Law” (honoring our Culture Ministers name), will allows the
> Government to close any web in Spain with a simple administrative order.
> Such a possibility clearly violate Article 20.5 of the Spanish Constitution,
> which grants exclusively to a judge the power to order the closure of a
> media outlet.
>
> Further the Government is trying to pass the new law avoiding the
> parliament aproval process in a special way reserved only to minor laws with
> general agreement.
>
> The apparent motivation for this law seems to lie in the judicial defeats
> each time the Cultural-Industry Lobby tried to close P2P services, so now
> they are trying another way to get them close no matter if by the way they
> finish as well with our freedom of speech.
>
> Today, just a few hours before the holidays season, our beloved Government
> ist trying to pass the Law.
>
> We don't know what is going to happen. During the past year the Government
> has disregard any popular protest against this Law and the last days the
> movement in Spain against the Law has been growing exponentially.
>
> But in any case we feel us less free in our country.
>
> Gabriel Serrano
>
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