Judge Rules P2P Legal, Sites To Be Presumed Innocent

[naughtydog]

After Spain virtually ruled out imposing a “3-strikes” regime for illicit file-sharers, the entertainment industries said they would target 200 BitTorrent sites instead. Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit via P2P doesn’t breach copyright laws and sites should be presumed innocent until proved otherwise.


Judge Rules P2P Legal, Sites To Be Presumed Innocent | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/judge-rules-p2p-legal-sites-to-be-presumed-innocent-090707/)

[slikrapid]

Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit via P2P doesn’t breach copyright laws and sites should be presumed innocent until proved otherwise.

sharing & torrents in general are legal

sites cannot be found guilty/innocent, only people have that 'privilege'


wealthy operations like SGAE aren’t put off by such rulings and instead go after eDonkey and BitTorrent sites privately, often demanding that they are forced to close via injunction in advance of a full court hearing to assess their legality.

this should be illegal and viewed as extortion & conspiracy to extort - is anybody doing it (suing such attempts) nowadays ?


The judge dismissed SGAE’s request for an immediate shutdown of Elrincondejesus.

he should also punish them for any further similar attempt which would result in much less number of 'private' threats and even less number of court trials