A Portuguese court has ruled that peer to peer sharing of music and films is legal.
The decision was made public in the last couple of hours in the Portuguese tech press.
From what I can understand the Portuguese court is upholding users’ right to make copies for personal use even if the source was not legit.
More detailed coverage here (in Portuguese)
Hat tip to Zé for sharing this:
Wait, what? “@PartidoPirataPT: Ministério Público diz que é legal copiar músicas e filmes na Net http://t.co/FrRuvOyx”
— Zé 🍍 (@zedejose) September 26, 2012
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Nice. Peer-to-peer sharing is now legal in Portugal http://t.co/kQAhGdJ3 We are winning back~
Looks like the tech press finally picked up on the Portugal p2p story – we covered it first though :) http://t.co/B9cJxE8B