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Spanish Court Likens File Sharing to Book Lending

By james_fudge

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The provincial court of Madrid has concluded that popular file sharing site, CVCDGO.com, did not " transfer or host any copyrighted works" and therefore did not violate any laws. This ruling falls in line with other cases in Spain involving file sharing, to the chagrin of police and organizations like the EGEDA and Columbia Tristar.

The case has been tangled up in court since 2005; in early 2005 Spanish police under its Intellectual Property Crime Squad, or "Operation CVCD," and the audiovisual rights collecting society EGEDA conducted an investigation, collecting evidence on the web site. Shortly thereafter police conducted a raid in multiple cities (Malaga, Seville and Madrid) arresting the four male operators of the site.

According to published reports prosecutors allege that the site shared movies with users - many of which hadn't even a theatrical release in the region. Since its launch in 2004 CVCDGO.com made its money off of ads on the site from an estimated 11 million visits. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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