However, an appeal was filed and heard by the Rome Court of Appeal in February. The site’s lawyer Fulvio Sarzana said that the Court ruled that the links do not qualify as distributing files protected by copyright law.
This means that sites can list links and not be prosecuted.
“The Judge has recognized as lawful the portals’ activities, and this is despite the presence of advertising banners,” Sarzana says.
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