Italian court declares P2P file sharing legal

Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that file sharing is legal, so long as the participants are not profiting from the activity.
The decision overturned a guilty verdict against two students from the Turin Polytechnic Institute who set up a short-lived P2P network in 1994.
They were found guilty of illegal duplication and given prison sentences of one year apiece, later reduced on appeal to three months.
However, the court has now ruled that, so long as no profit is made from sharing, there is no case to answer.
"I consider this sentence as a very intermediate step in clarifying what is legal and what is not legal," analyst Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffe, president of Assodigitale, a think-tank on digital technology, told the International Herald Tribune.

"This sentence marks an important step in that peer-to-peer per se is not an illegal activity. What stays and remains illegal is copyright infringement by cracking copyright files, and distributing it for commercial purposes."
But the findings are now in dispute, as Italy has since introduced a law to make the file sharing of copyrighted material illegal and punishable by fines or imprisonment.
SIAE, the Italian agency that monitors copyright theft, said that it would be applying the law in all new cases.

:source: Source: IT Week

viva Italia!

*In other news, torrent sites globally start to move their servers to Italy*


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ha!:lol: I am 100% italian by heritage and really wanted to move there in the future, but not anymore. I'd rather be able to share files.:happy:

Oh well, On behalf of my people, I apologize to the community.:cry:

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Haha ROFL :D

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ha!:lol: I am 100% italian by heritage and really wanted to move there in the future, but not anymore. I'd rather be able to share files.:happy:

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Did you read the post properly......

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And that also means that there is going to be a huge increase of sites that stick around for years.

This is truly a reason to celebrate. :D

Will rest of Europe follow?

Lets all move to Italy