File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal in Portugal
Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 27 September 2012
According to the prosecutor it is not against the law to share copyrighted works for personal use, and an IP-address is not enough evidence to identify a person.
Wearing T-shirts with the slogan “Piracy is Illegal”, the movie industry sponsored anti-piracy group ACAPOR delivered several boxes full of IP-addresses of alleged ‘illegal’ file-sharers to the Attorney General’s Office last year.
The prosecutor adds that the right to education, culture, and freedom of expression on the Internet should not be restricted in cases where the copyright infringements are clearly non-commercial.
Now it won't take long until Portugal is placed on the US Congressional Watchlist just like Switzerland a few days ago after it declared that filesharing isn't much of a problem.