[x-pubpol] Spanish court: jail time for linking to copyright infringing files

[Joly MacFie]

http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-admins-jailed-for-linking-to-copyright-works-111018/

The administrators of two file-sharing sites have been sentenced to fines
and a year in jail for linking to copyright works. Breaking a long run of
operators being acquitted for similar activities, a Spanish court decided
that the act of linking constituted a for-profit “public communication”.
The lawyer for one of the defendants has denounced the decision, saying
that it can only be understood in “political terms”.


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