[x-pubpol] In Spain, website owners can now get six years in prison for linking to copyrighted material

[Joly MacFie]

(via Lauren Weinstein)

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/20/4753398/in-spain-website-owners-can-now-get-six-years-in-prison-for-linking

    "Website owners whose sites profit from linking to unauthorized
     copyrighted material can now be jailed for up to six years under
     a new measure that passed today in Spain. Spain is considered one
     of the worst offenders in Europe when it comes to illegally
     downloading content; one study reported that 98.7 of music
     Spaniards listen to is pirated. The law will spare peer-to-peer
     filesharing sites, search engines, and users of the link-sharing
     sites."
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