As you would expect a large number of web sites are covering the fact that Spain has presented a new Internet anti-piracy law. On balance the coverage is positive, as the focus is to provide stronger powers for the authorities to close down websites serving illegal downloads of music and films.

Here is a selection of the coverage which interesting points out that Spain has the largest amount of illegal downloads, and that in theory the new law would allow even Google to be closed down.

Marbella has announced plans to promote the city and its main attraction – tourism, through its own YouTube channel so that hotels can transmit the videos through their own TV channels.

A new website, which will include a reservation system and a forum will put this strategy into practice. The idea that Marbella announced also aims to have people who visited Marbella to post their own videos online.

The Internet global supermarket is booming because people and businesses are looking for bargains and new outlets in bad times, a new report says.

And the this great global shopping mall can only expand rapidly as mobile phone use explodes, the Chinese get involved and advertisers jump in, the OECD forecasts.

But the e-trade revolution is being held back by hidden frontiers, ranging from concerns over privacy of personal information, language problems, delivery costs and taxation and regulation barriers.

His statement goes against the Ministry of Culture which is planning to close pages without a judicial order

There are conflicting reports coming from the Government over the planned policy on the closure of websites on the internet.

The European parliament approved Tuesday a major overhaul of EU telecoms law aimed at boosting the rights of European mobile phone and Internet users and protection against access restrictions.

The move, after months of bargaining, was eventually approved by a broad majority.

It unblocks a package of reforms due to be implemented in the next 18 months to “enhance consumer rights, safeguard Internet freedom, protect data, boost competition and modernise radio spectrum use,” according to the parliament.

Fashions to fit, in reassuringly familiar UK sizes, are just a click away. Britain’s best-loved home shopping brand, Littlewoods, has now launched in Spain, Germany, France and Portugal.

Aimed at expats and anglophiles, it offers delivery to homes in mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands for just EUR 5 per order. (Or completely free, if you order before the end of October.) It puts all the hard-to-find items, like stylish trousers in a choice of up to three leg lengths, within easy reach, no matter how remote the location. So there’s no need to give up an afternoon in the sun for a fruitless trudge round the shops.

Spain’s Inditex, Europe’s largest clothing retailer, said Wednesday it would start selling its flagship Zara brand clothes over the internet later this year in selected European markets.

“Zara will start online sales for the autumn/winter 2010 season. Initially the online sales will be launched in Spain, France, Germany, UK, Italy and Portugal, to be followed by the progressive rollout in all Zara markets,” it said in a statement.

The European Union announced last week an EUR 18 million investment in an “ultra high-speed” internet system to underpin the next generation of mobile services.

“Europe’s research know-how will continue to set the tone for the development of mobile services and devices around the globe, just as we did in the past decades with the GSM standard,” promised EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding.

Some 6,000 Internet enthusiasts are expected to attend the week-long Campus Party, one of the world’s biggest online entertainment events, which got underway Monday in Spain, organisers said.

The event, which unites participants from all over the world to share ideas, experiences and activities related to computers, communications and new technology, is being held in the Mediterranean port of Valencia.

Young people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over, experts said Monday.

“Older adults are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet,” said Professor Vicki Hanson of the School of Computing at Scotland’s University of Dundee on the opening day of a global World Wide Web conference in Madrid.

The “free economy”, where businesses give away their products to make money, is spreading fast thanks to the recession and the increasing reach of digital technology, according to the author Chris Anderson.

Mr Anderson, whose acclaimed book The Long Tail is about how the digital revolution allows businesses to profit from selling small quantities of relatively unpopular items, said that consumers with less in their pockets were looking for bargains, making the free business strategy even more attractive.