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?<br><br>I wrote some about the #sindegate and the cables on Sunday: <a href="http://stenskott.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/sustainable-economy/">http://stenskott.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/sustainable-economy/</a><br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 December 2010 22:50, Gabriel Serrano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriel.serrano@partidopirata.es">gabriel.serrano@partidopirata.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
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As it seems, the Government of Spain has obeyed the order.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Today, just a few hours before the holidays season, our beloved Government ist trying to pass the Law.<br>
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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.<br>
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But in any case we feel us less free in our country.<br>
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Gabriel Serrano<br>
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