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David +1.<br>
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Spain: the country where corruption meets incompetence.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
That is why we're thinking in creating a torrent/links site under
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pirates.cat">http://pirates.cat</a> ( 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 :)<br>
<br>
In any case, this would be really prime-time bitching to SGAE.<br>
<br>
If you are interested in such a project (Pirate's Catalog), please
send us an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:partit@pirata.cat">partit@pirata.cat</a> as well as Fabián Plaza,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fabianplaza@hotmail.com">fabianplaza@hotmail.com</a>, top PP-GAL's lawyer.<br>
<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Kenneth<br>
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Al 02/05/12 11:48, En/na David Arcos ha escrit:
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cite="mid:CAFB-oW0QEZjeuc5zoRq5Be7VDVGRrt6BpOg9fYL7qFuXEZmbNw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:11 AM, <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:eduardo@partidopirata.com.ar" target="_blank">eduardo@partidopirata.com.ar</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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Perhaps the U.S goverment wants to have any like Sinde Law!:<br>
<br>
"Spain – In recognition of Spain’s recent efforts with respect
to IPR<br>
protection and enforcement, the United States has removed
Spain from the<br>
Watch List. The United States applauds Spain’s adoption of
regulations<br>
implementing the “Ley Sinde,” a law to combat copyright piracy
over the<br>
Internet. The United States will monitor the implementation of
these<br>
measures and their overall effectiveness in addressing online
piracy."<br>
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<br>
Fuck that!<br>
<br>
> Antonio Guisasola of the Music Producers of Spain
(Promusicae) (...)<br>
> Guisasola confirmed that Spain's music industry favors moving
Spain to the Priority Watch List in this year's Special 301
review.<br>
Cable 248887 (10MADRID179), Wikileaks. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=10MADRID179">http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=10MADRID179</a><br>
<br>
So Promusicae wanted Spain to be on the 301, then they bitched on
the media, then Wikileaks disclosed it. Don't forget that!<br>
And I would bet it's the same than in other countries.<br>
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(I sent you an email with more links, in Spanish)<br>
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