In Spain, the government is behind a revision of the penal code itself that owners and managers of filesharingsites that copyright infringement facilitate a maximum prison sentence of six years in the prospect.
To the maximum punishment of two to six years to be able to impose the Spanish justice prove to be particularly serious facts, having regard to the value of the exchanged content, and that the administrators or owners here intentionally financial gain to have been achieved. The Spanish justice emphasized that in no case the intention is to act against individual users, search engines, or the p2p programs themselves. “If that is not the intention for financial gain, there is no crime,” said minister Alberto Ruiza Gallardón, according to El Pais.
In the Spanish media is criticism on the height; so points to El Confidencial, however, that the prison sentences for p2p-site administrators now higher than that for manslaughter or child prostitution. The increase of the penalties come on existing measures, such as the ability to block sites and remove content, but Torrentfreak writes that there is in practice hardly made use of the opportunities that the adopted in 2011 Sinde-law offered.
Spain was long known for its cautious policy towards the combating of piracy. Under pressure from the United States is that attitude the last years lax has become. The proposal must still be in the Spanish parliament to be discussed, then would be the amended act early next year.