No court ruling was required; lone a complaint, a commission, and a censorship protocol built for speed.
Spain’s Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, a part of the country’s Ministry of Culture, has ordered the blocking of multiple domains of the Archive.today service, a web filing service.
It method that most Spanish net users who try to admission the location are redirected to a authorities leaf telling them that they are trying to admission an “illegal” website.
The page, alongside the heading “ESTÁ USTED INTENTANDO ACCEDER A UN SITIO WEB ILEGAL” (“YOU ARE TRYING TO ACCESS AN ILLEGAL WEBSITE”), goes on to accusation the person of “facilitating forbidden admission to satisfied protected by intelligent asset rights” by visiting the site.
The complete content of the allegation against the person is: “El acceso a esta página ha sido bloqueado mediante Resolución de la Sección Segunda de la Comisión de Propiedad Intelectual” (“Access to this leaf has been blocked by a resolution of the Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission”) since of “facilitar ilegalmente el acceso a contenidos protegidos por derechos de propiedad intelectual” (“illegally facilitating admission to satisfied protected by intelligent asset rights”).
The leaf afterward warns that by trying to admission the content, the person “está contribuyendo a una actividad ilegal y delictiva, y poniendo en riesgo su seguridad, la de sus datos y dispositivos” (“is contributing to an forbidden and offender activity, and putting at hazard your own security, that of your data and devices”).
