VinX
05-14-2009, 05:37 PM
Copyright Group: No Need to Hear P2P Site’s Defense
Spanish copyright group SGAE has taken legal action in order to close down a site which offers links to copyrighted music hosted elsewhere. In seeking an injunction to close the site, SGAE said it was not necessary for the court to hear the site’s defense. The court disagreed.
Yet again, Spain’s answer to the RIAA has been flexing its muscles in trying to close down another site that offers links to copyright works. Time and time again the Spanish courts have kicked out claims against similar sites, declaring them to be entirely legal, but SGAE has its hands firmly pressed to its ears.
This time SGAE targeted Agujero.com, a site which amongst other things offers links to files found on various P2P networks. Defended by lawyers David Bravo and Javier de la Cueva, Agujero.com is protesting its innocence using the same successful defense employed earlier by P2P site Sharemula. However, the increasingly deaf SGAE believes otherwise, claiming that the site operates illegally.
“The entertainment industry has tried to criminalize websites linking to P2P,” Javier de la Cueva told TorrentFreak. “After four years, it seems they have given up with criminal proceedings as it is clear it is not a crime because a link is not a copy nor is it public communication. It is just metadata, data about data. Now they [SGAE] have begun civil claims.”
READ MORE : TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-group-no-need-to-hear-p2p-sites-defense-090513/)
Spanish copyright group SGAE has taken legal action in order to close down a site which offers links to copyrighted music hosted elsewhere. In seeking an injunction to close the site, SGAE said it was not necessary for the court to hear the site’s defense. The court disagreed.
Yet again, Spain’s answer to the RIAA has been flexing its muscles in trying to close down another site that offers links to copyright works. Time and time again the Spanish courts have kicked out claims against similar sites, declaring them to be entirely legal, but SGAE has its hands firmly pressed to its ears.
This time SGAE targeted Agujero.com, a site which amongst other things offers links to files found on various P2P networks. Defended by lawyers David Bravo and Javier de la Cueva, Agujero.com is protesting its innocence using the same successful defense employed earlier by P2P site Sharemula. However, the increasingly deaf SGAE believes otherwise, claiming that the site operates illegally.
“The entertainment industry has tried to criminalize websites linking to P2P,” Javier de la Cueva told TorrentFreak. “After four years, it seems they have given up with criminal proceedings as it is clear it is not a crime because a link is not a copy nor is it public communication. It is just metadata, data about data. Now they [SGAE] have begun civil claims.”
READ MORE : TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-group-no-need-to-hear-p2p-sites-defense-090513/)