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Spanish judges compare filesharing to book lending
08:55 | Wednesday June 9, 2010
In another blow to the Spanish music industry, a court has ruled a filesharing site does not violate copyright law because it does not host infringing content.
The case against the CVCDGO site ended in a similar judgement to recent cases brought against other P2P platforms.
TechDirt reports the judges in the case compared filesharing to borrowing books, an argument certain to anger the Spanish record industry.
The judges summed up the case saying, “Since ancient times there has been the loan or sale of books, movies, music and more. The difference now is mainly on the medium used - previously it was paper or analog media and now everything is in a digital format which allows a much faster exchange of a higher quality and also with global reach through the Internet."
A recent report by IDC Research claimed that online piracy cost the Spanish music business €5m (£4.2m) in the second half of 2009. Piracy made up 95.6% of all online music consumption in the country.
Readers' comments
If you borrow a book, you are not making any copy of such a book. If you download a music file, you are creating a new copy of such a file. Copyright?... the clue is the title.
How about cutting Spanish judges' wages by 50% and explaining the cut with lost tax revenue from the music industry. I am sure even the most senile Spanish judge would try to reverse the ruling.