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September 27, 2012 05:05 pm

File-Sharing For Personal Use Declared Legal In Portugal


First time accepted submitter M0j0_j0j0 writes "After receiving 2000 complaints regarding "illegal file sharing" from ACAPOR on P2P network the Portuguese justice refused to take the case into court on the premise that file sharing is not illegal on the territory, if, files are for personal and not commercial use. The court also stated that the complaints had as a sole evidence the IP address of users, and that it is a wrong statement to assume an IP address is directly related to one individual. TorrentFfreak has a piece in English with more details (original source in Portuguese)."

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