[pp.int.general] Julia Schramm

[Jordi Soucheiron]

This issue has already landed in one of our most popular spanish newspapers:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/09/20/cultura/1348133089.html

2012/9/20 Francisco George <francisco.george at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> In Spain there was the "RojaDirecta case". RojaDirecta is a site offering
> links to other websites that broadcast "illegaly", according US copyrights,
> sports events like NBA, NFL, UEFA etc...
>
> RojaDirecta has been 2 times found NOT Guilty by Spanish Court Rooms
> according to spanish laws because they only provided the links and didn't
> hosted any of the events on their servers.
>
> Nonetheless FBI and ICE Department, 18 months ago seized both .com and
> .org domain from them, they remained in operation through their .es and .me
> domain. Losing of course lots of trafic as most of it came from the one
> seized.
>
> They started a complaint right after in the US against the seizing of
> their "under US Laws" Domains. After 18 months of litigations and dirty
> tricks from US prosecutors. ICE and FBI finally, 3 weeks ago, said that
> they abandoned the case and the judge ordered the US authorities to return
> the seized domains.
>
> see the article of Mike Masnick at TechDirt
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120829/12370820209/oops-after-seizing-censoring-rojadirecta-18-months-feds-give-up-drop-case.shtml
>
> There must be a way that Europe must fight such actions by US Authorities
> as they Acted against 2 spanish court orders that said that, under Spanish
> laws, RojaDirecta was perfectly LEGAL.
>
> Francisco George - PP ES
>
>
>
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