Spain Joins Germany in Telling Big Content: No 3 Strikes Here Buddy

Spain joins Germany in voicing some common sense, when said sense seems to be in short supply when you look at France and what the UK is proposing.

Jon from P2Pnet has the story:

It does not intend to disconnect Internet users who repeatedly ignore warnings not to download copyright protected content, Billboard has culture minister Angeles González-Sinde (pictured on left) saying.

The government “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,” González-Sinde stated during a TV show,  says the story, going on:

González-Sinde said the first thing to do is “attack the origin of all these products that are on the Web sites, as well as those who benefit from them.” She added that Internet piracy was “a very complex matter,” and would surely be very present in debates during Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union that begins Jan. 1.

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We’ll never know how many hundreds of millions of dollars Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music have squandered on their vicious worldwide media blitz designed to paint the men, women and children who share music online as hardcore criminals and thieves — money which rightfully should have gone to paying and promoting contracted artists, not to mention shareholders and investors.

In an ideal world, they’d now be reaping the vast financial benefits of tapping into the burgeoning world of online digital music.

Article and commentary: P2Pnet

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