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This text is a summary of my dissertation where I try to show some key points of the study. I chose to discuss very concisely the motivations that have led me to conduct the study in Bulgaria but also my methodological inspiration and the fieldwork I have done. Here, I also introduce the three main actors in the network of relations, constructed as a result of the ethnographic study: Internet Providers, Torrents Trackers and Subtitling pages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years the use of P2P networks and other ways of making available to the public of copyrighted contents without the authorization of Intellectual Property rights' holders, has considerably grown in Spain. In order to solve these problems and the damages caused by domestic piracy, it has been approved the called Ley Sinde (Final Provision 43 th of the Law 2/2011, on Sustainable Economy) and the Royal Decree 1889/2011, to develop it. It provides a proceeding though which rightholders can ask for the closure of a website that infringes intellectual property rights or the removal of the infringing content. It will be carried out by the Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, an administrative body, although the authorization by Judge must be requested in two moments of the proceeding: the transfer of personal data by providers of Internet service and the enforcement execution of the measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]