How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by euyyn on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:09PM (#15370569)

Thanks for the links! From them, he was asked whether he was under contract by the Generalitat to do it.

If they can't find any evidence of such contract, I expect the charges will be dismissed and his stuff restored.

I don't think the argument that he's not allowed to do it, by his own will with his own funds, will hold in court; if I understand the law correctly. I guess at most he might be in trouble regarding the Ley de Protección de Datos, IANAL and I wouldn't know. In any case if private data-handling is fine and still the law wouldn't allow it, that law needs to be changed.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by NetStrikeForce on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:36PM (#15370684)

Thank you for asking for those :-)

I also expect charges dismissed. A detail about his stuff is that he didn't get a receipt (as per his lawyer that was not yet present), so his things were (in his lawyer's words) "effectively stolen by the police".

This happened before the "where to vote" part of the referendum site existed. It was just an informational static site.

Many other have been called to declare with "no specific crime" in the judge notifications also for mirroring the website, including at least one member of the Catalan branch of the Pirate Party. This has been seen by some as harassment to avoid more people mirroring the website.

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