LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain

Re:LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Intern... by edgineer on Sunday September 21, 2025 @02:51PM (#45325542)

I'm interested in hearing more about the evolution of copyright law wrt computer media in Spain. I see an article from 2001 describing how compiled software was not copyrightable in Spain at that time. [0] From [1] I see that individual file sharing, except for software, is allowed there.

Having seen how Sweden changed their copyright law in response to the Pirate Bay website [2], I wish everyone knew that it wasn't always this way, and that states maintain their own rules. The idea that "no one shall copy any corporation's media, ever" is a recent propaganda success.

[0] https://www.mondaq.com/copyright/14472/technology-protection...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm

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Re:LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Intern... by AshamedCaptain on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:39PM (#45326917)

> I see an article from 2001 describing how compiled software was not copyrightable in Spain at that time

Compiled software is not copyrightable in any country that I know of. Compilation is not an original creative process. The original software is copyrightable, and compiling it creates a (protected) derived work of it.

> I see that individual file sharing, except for software, is allowed there.

The Pirate Bay is censored in Spain as much as it is on France.

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