That Spanish lawsuit which was thrown out of court when the judge declared personal copying to be a "socially accepted and widely practiced behavior" isn't such a big deal, says the IFPI.

For starters, a bit of important information seems to have been lost in translation. The defendant in the case did obtain music from P2P networks, but he then burned the music to CD-R and, although he promoted his compilations on-line, he used snail mail to actually distribute physical CDs. So, what was originally touted as solid precident in Spanish law for legal filesharing may really not change things at all.

In other IFPI related piracy news, a 47 year old Swedish man was fined €70,000 and given a 30 day suspended prison sentance for selling more than 400 illegally manufactured records within a six month period

[via The Digital Music News]