In Spain, rejected a legislative amendment aimed at combating file sharing

It is worth recalling that not so long ago in some countries, including France and Spain, the courts began to adopt amendments to various laws aimed at combating file sharing services and “pirates” in general. It is clear that all this was initiated by the right holders, but now, apparently, they are beginning to slowly lose ground.

Thus, in Spain, the lower house of parliament rejected the amendment to the “Law on Sustainable Economy”. This amendment, seemingly harmless, gave the authorities the right to block and disable resources that contain pirated content, or even links to pirated content.
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It is clear that if such an amendment were adopted, then lawmakers would quickly disconnect torrent trackers with other file sharing sites. In principle, almost 80% of all online resources fit the definition of “violation of copyright law”.

Most likely, some experts believe, the American lobby of rights holders has a great influence on such activation of the fight against "pirates". But now the influence of this lobby seems to have waned a bit. At the very least, Spanish lawmakers were able to reject a dangerous amendment that could set a precedent for other countries.

It is worth noting that Spain has never been particularly eager to punish file sharing owners or users. This year, one of the courts of Spain made an interesting decision, which states that the file sharing service does not contradict the laws of the country if the webmaster does not seek to use his resource for commercial purposes.

In general, in Spain, lawmakers were able to repulse copyright holders, so now it would be nice for other countries to equal Spain. It is logical that the cancellation of the amendment caused jubilation in the camp of file-sharing supporters, and discontent in the camp of file-sharing opponents, however now both the first and second demand the resignation of the Minister of Culture of Spain. It was under his strict guidance that the unfortunate amendment was developed.