[pp.int.general] Argentina the 2nd worst´s copyright law but in Priority Watch List: of 301 report!

[Kenneth Peiruza]

David +1.

Spain: the country where corruption meets incompetence.

Argentina has bad laws? Spanish Sinde-Biden law is just dumbness and
arbitrariness in an official paper. Figure out, in Spain, local RIAA
even charges hairdressers for having music on their business.

An "expert's commission" will decide which parts of the Internet aren't
good for Spaniards. This commission, composed of 50% people from the
ministries of Culture & Industry and 50% people from local RIAA/MPAA
(SGAE) and other cultural monopolies, can decide to shut down any
website not only hosting copyrighted materials, but also linking to
copyrighted materials.

The law is so "empty" that it doesn't define the "link recursivity
level", so, theoretically, you can close google for linking to a site
which links to TPB which links to copyrighted materials, and everyone in
this chain as well, of course.

That is a really bad law, and we're cooperating in some law-trolling and
civil disobedience campaigns. We plan to block the law by administrative
means, delaying all the processes some months/years.

The only "safeguard" point of this law is that it doesn't allow to close
a website if that affects fundamental rights, like political ideology.

That is why we're thinking in creating a torrent/links site under
http://pirates.cat ( Pirate's Catalog ! ) with some other pirate parties
in Spain, so we can confront this law until its last consequences: a
favorable sentence for us, or one against us that lets us close Google
as well :)

In any case, this would be really prime-time bitching to SGAE.

If you are interested in such a project (Pirate's Catalog), please send
us an email to partit at pirata.cat as well as Fabián Plaza,
fabianplaza at hotmail.com, top PP-GAL's lawyer.


Best regards,

Kenneth

Al 02/05/12 11:48, En/na David Arcos ha escrit:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:11 AM, <eduardo at partidopirata.com.ar
> <mailto:eduardo at partidopirata.com.ar>> wrote:
>
>
>     Perhaps the U.S goverment wants to have any like Sinde Law!:
>
>     "Spain -- In recognition of Spain's recent efforts with respect to IPR
>     protection and enforcement, the United States has removed Spain
>     from the
>     Watch List. The United States applauds Spain's adoption of regulations
>     implementing the "Ley Sinde," a law to combat copyright piracy
>     over the
>     Internet. The United States will monitor the implementation of these
>     measures and their overall effectiveness in addressing online piracy."
>
>
> Fuck that!
>
> > Antonio Guisasola of the Music Producers of Spain (Promusicae) (...)
> > Guisasola confirmed that Spain's music industry favors moving Spain
> to the Priority Watch List in this year's Special 301 review.
> Cable 248887 (10MADRID179), Wikileaks.
> http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=10MADRID179
>
> So Promusicae wanted Spain to be on the 301, then they bitched on the
> media, then Wikileaks disclosed it. Don't forget that!
> And I would bet it's the same than in other countries.
>
>
> (I sent you an email with more links, in Spanish)
>
>
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