Yes, it is surprising that a country that would support something that brutal
would make the right decision regarding the RIAA bullshit machine.

Make perfect sense to me.

Since there is no way to stop people from sharing information (fortunatly!) because of the nature of computers they were only two possibilities:

1) Centralized p2p system such as Napster. The governement levy a small tax on internet providers and the distribution of the money is done according to “dowload data” monitored by an independant and official organization.

2) Sound and movie recording have to be free since there is no way to monitor accuratly who is downloding what even with BT.

The solution number one hads been killed by the parasites and criminals at the RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/VIVENDIQUE-UNIVERSALE/RUPER MURDERERS and the like because by killing napster they killed all the p2p centralized systems.

The only kind of centralized p2p system is BT. Unfortunatly what is centralized in BT are not the repositories of files but the repositories of shorcut to the files. This does not represent not even closely what people actually download!

There is also a plethora of totally anonymous P2p solutions that did not became popular yet because the entertainment parasites has been poweless to efficiently monitor the downladers. People know that despite all the uindustry Nazi type propaganda.

If they were succesful to loby governements in violating the privacy of the citizen further these solutions would become wide spread and they will be no way at all to tell who is exchanging what.

These solutions are already deployed very succesfully in countries who have nasty governement such as China and their infamous cyber great wall where most of the traffic now transit via anonymous WIFI, proxies and onions routers.

I think this is one area where we could learn from the Spanish.