Spain lays the smackdown on piracy

..it gets worse; instead of going after those breaking the law, they’re placing criminal liability on the ISPs, if they’re seen as facilitating file trading (which probably means not automatically blocking any network that could be used as such). Of course, this won’t work because it places the burden on a party that’s unable to stop the activity.

Digging deeper into this case, it seems that blank CD’s will have a special tax applied. Not only that, but also flash media and other blank media sources. If that wasn’t bad enough, holding the ISP liable for their users actions is. I think it’s quite obvious that this is not something easy to stop, so this is only going to make things harder on the Spanish ISP’s it seems.