Iyow - in your own words

This is cutting off your nose to spite your face: Apparently, Spain has outlawed all peer-to-peer file sharing (the kind used by most people to share music, software, and movies) and takes it a huge leap further: Technical providers will be penalized there if their customers do it, and they’re taxing all forms of blank media, like flash memory drives, CDs, DVDs.

I’m sorry, but they’ll just be holding themselves back, while the rest of the world gets to take advantage of all the information media advances of, oh, the last five years. But if Spain is trying to stunt their own information industry (and its professionals), this is a good way to do it.