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File-Sharing Admins Jailed For Linking To Copyright Worksby EnigmaxTorrentFreak Oct. 18, 2011 |
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 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”. In common with many similar sites, FenixP2P.com and MP3-es.com carried no content of their own, but instead linked to other locations where content was hosted. A negative ruling against their operators seemed unlikely as Spanish courts have continually acquitted defendants running similar sites. It therefore comes as a quite shock to hear that the Provincial Court of Vizcaya has sentenced the operators of both sites not only to fines, but a year in jail. Read More |
