Comments on: U.S. Government Pushes Spain To Adopt Their Own SOPA https://techcitement.com/culture/u-s-government-pushes-spain-to-adopt-their-own-sopa/ get excited Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:16:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: SOPA Will Kill The Internet « The Daily Bla Bla Bla https://techcitement.com/culture/u-s-government-pushes-spain-to-adopt-their-own-sopa/#comment-1301 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:16:08 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7422#comment-1301 […] to try and bully Spain into signing this by threatening their trade.Tom Wyrik wrote about it in Techcitementand was also written about in CBS News Tech […]

]]> By: Naryldor https://techcitement.com/culture/u-s-government-pushes-spain-to-adopt-their-own-sopa/#comment-1253 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:56:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7422#comment-1253 Truth be told, the “Sinde” law (Sinde being the name of the former Minister of Culture and Education, thus the nickname) was first introduced about two years ago, at first the Law was worded so that the Commission could decide the closing or blocking of a web site without that being first approved by a judge, since the former Government didn’t have enough weight in Parliament to pass the law, negociations with other parties (mostly the party that is now in the Goverment) led to the law as it is written now.

More pressing matters like economy delayed it’s final aproval in spite of beign supported by the two principal parties in Spain (Socialist party, to whom the former Government and Popular party which is the ruling party now).  Former Prime Minister Zapatero didn’t pass the law in the final weeks of his term when he had the chance to, probably because he knew well how unpopular the law is and, thus, handed over the “honour” of its aproval to our new Government.

Not that I’m denying the influence of those US letters, but also piracy rates in Spain are brutal, particularly in music more than 90% is pirated. I seriosly doubt of the effectiveness of this law, but it was due time something was done about it.Here’s a wikipedia article about the law (in spanish):

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_Econom%C3%ADa_Sostenible.

In fact, the Sinde Law is really part of a bigger Law called “Ley de Economia Sostenible” which translates as something like “Sustainable Economy Act”, it’s basically (or pretends to be) a pack of measures to improve Spain’s economy after the brutal falldown of the construction business and the global public and private debt crisis. Part of this law is what it’s been nicknamed “Sinde Law” which pursuits making things harder for piracy.

]]> By: Adam Crocker https://techcitement.com/culture/u-s-government-pushes-spain-to-adopt-their-own-sopa/#comment-1252 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:06:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7422#comment-1252 “Spain’s incoming Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, passed
the legislation within ten days of taking office. Perhaps this had
something to do with another leaked letter, from the American Chamber of
Commerce in Spain, warning of potential flight of foreign investment
from Spain if action wasn’t taken to pass the intellectual property law
quickly.”

Fear-mongering from a superpower to get another country to pass legislation?  No!  That’s not dodgy and questionable at all!

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