Hi,

2011/12/22 David Barrett <dbarr...@quinthar.com>
>
> Then how about Spain?
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/22/0235235/spanish-court-rules-in-favor-of-p2p-engineer
>
> All it takes is one country, anywhere in the world.  And one person in
> that country with time on their hands.
>

P2P is not illegal in Spain, and there is a whole bunch of engineers
and scientists working on that right now; here's one of our papers on
the subject  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1429696 just in case
somebody is interested.

However, what the court has ruled is that creating and releasing a
program is not illegal; it does not say anything about using it for
sharing (which, AFAIK, it's illegal -of course if it's IP-protected
stuff- but _not_ prosecuted). So you are all very much welcome to
Spain to research and test your P2P systems! (or check ours, of
course; this paper is probably the best introduction: EvAg: a scalable
peer-to-peer evolutionary algorithm, at
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gusz/papers/2010-GPEM-11-EvAg.pdf)

Cheers


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JJ
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