Good News For Spanish Filesharing

Spanish filesharing fans may be having something of a party in response to the recent news that filesharing site cvcdgo.com has won a long-running battle against copyright holders.

A case against cvcdgo.com was filed by Columbia Tristar and a company called Egeda last year. That initial case was thrown out by a Madrid court. The two companies appealed the decision in the hopes of turning it over, but the courts came to a similar conclusion on the 9th of June this year.

The courts were apparently of the opinion that linking to the torrents or shared files did not constitute a crime in and of itself. Also since the data was on many different computers across the world, there was no way to connect the crime of copyright infringement with the things that cvcdgo.com were doing.

The judges actually likened filesharing to the ancient – and widely accepted practice – of lending books. An analogy that I’m not entirely sure about (maybe it lost something in translation), but whatever my views, it sends a strong and unambiguous signal to copyright holders: fighting your battles is going to be very hard work indeed.

Good News For Spanish Filesharing

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