Spain Court: file sharing is legal

While the entertainment industry has been working over time to try to stop file sharing in Spain, court ruling after court ruling has found that personal file sharing is perfectly reasonable and legal — and that sites that merely link to content rather than host it (i.e., search engines and trackers) aren’t breaking copyright law either. In the latest such case, a judge found that a guy who downloaded and shared over 3,000 movies wasn’t violating copyright law, because it was all for personal use with no intent to profit.