Оказывается, не все так хорошо в Италии. Один журналист написал письмо в
The Inquirer. Вкратце, двух студентов взяли за одно место в далеком 1994 году и теперешнее решение суда относится к законам, которые были до 2001 года. В 2001 году был принят "Urbani law", который ввел жесткие штрафы даже за расшаривание без получения выгоды и решение суда никак не касается того, что произошло и происходит после 2001 года.
Полный текст письма на англ.:
Subject: Italian P2p ruling NOT applicable to current situation
Hello Nick,
I'm an Italian-Swiss journalist who follows IT and online copyright issues. The Italian court ruling does not apply to the current legal situation in Italy.
The ruling relates to the state of the law as it was before 2001, when the so-called "Urbani law" was passed which introduced stiff fines even for not-for-profit file sharing.
Yes, it does take years for the Italian High Court to get involved in a legal case and provide a final decision.
Unfortunately, many Italian media have presented this as applicable to current Italian law. That is not the case, as pointed out by the more law- and tech-savvy journalists in specialist sites such as Punto Informatico.
This has caused great confusion in Italy, as you can imagine. The law is largely ignored anyway, so this ruling makes little difference in practice, but I thought you'd like to get the facts straight.
All the best
Paolo Attivissimo