According to Torrentfreak:
Ever since it became clear that running a P2P links site is not a crime in Spain, music anti-piracy group SGAE have threatened civil action. Yesterday the admin of two P2P sites had a home visit by members of SGAE, who took advantage of the admin’s legal naivety and conducted a search of his property without a suitable warrant.
It’s frightening when the copyright lobbies and agencies are so daring, and feeling so right in their cause that they can do what not even the goddamn police are able to do.
We keep seeing the lobbies and agents of the copyright companies go further and further, obtaining stricter and stricter rules, gaining permissions to access information that even the police has a hard time getting, essentially gaining powers I sincerely think they shouldn’t be allowed to come close to. In some countries they’ve even gotten the permission to investigate instead of the police (any country these days?), permission to come along on raids (Netherlands), and with pressure enough to send warranted raids based on political pressure against legal operations (Sweden), and in this latest case they’ve taken the law into their own hands (Spain).
This is simply too much power in the hands of the corporations. They seek profit, and like most people they’ll use it for any advantage, no matter how gross the trespasses they can get away with.