28.09.2012 - 07:04 [ techdirt ]

Portugal: File Sharing For Personal Use Is Legal And IP Addresses Are Not People

In a move that should remind you of Spain‘s ruling that personal file-sharing was legal, before America‘s entertainment industry helpfully wrote the Spanish people a new law (wait…what!!?!?), file-sharing for personal use has been declared legal in Portugal. How could something so monumental happen, you wonder? Well, funny story: the entertainment industry made it happen.