A new law in Spain 86'es P2P networks, bans ISPs from "facillitating filesharing" and imposes a blanket tax on blank media.

"The tax will go into a fund which will be shared among copyright holders to compensate for piracy."
But, the story goes on, according to a European Commission statement, "The logic of levies would also have to be applied to broadband and infrastructure service providers including telecommunications providers that carry content."

Yikes, this bill sounds like it was drafted by the record labels themselves. The scary thing is, for most crazy bits of legislation like this one, there is a bit of public outcry and at least some internet coverage of the badly formed bill as it makes its way into badly formed law. Not such in this case, as avid followers of P2P news got their first taste of this new law only this week.

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