Ignacio Escolar Jail Scare

Ignacio Escolar, a Spanish journalist wrote a poorly researched article arguing that foneros in Spain could go to jail for two years for downloading our software (links in my Spanish blog). While Spain does have a law that says that people who download content and resell it for profit could be punish with up to a two year prison term, Ignacio Escolar wrongly thought this law made for the movie industry could apply to people who share wifi or resell wifi. If this were true there would be a lot of people in jail at Boingo, T Mobile, Eurospot…