Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
by underlines on Saturday April 23, 2022 @04:28PM
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downloading anything since 1997 in Switzerland: BBS, FXP, IRC/XDCC then later on gnutella, DC++, torrents and one click hosters.
De jure it's not really legal anymore since they updated the law... De facto nobody cares as long as you're not making a business out of it.
Same goes for the place I live since 2016: Thailand.
Though: Not pirating for professional stuff, only for private stuff. I still support software/media by buying the things I want to support.
Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
by Youden on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:10PM
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> De jure it's not really legal anymore since they updated the law... De facto nobody cares as long as you're not making a business out of it.
My claim was founded on authoritative sources, including the law itself. If you want to contradict that claim, you'll need to back it up.
The mentioned legal basis is [1].
Note that this applies strictly to downloading though. Participating in a torrent swarm (where uploading is also happening) is not permitted. That's where the technicality you mention comes in: until recently, it was illegal to monitor internet users for copyright enforcement purposes, which meant it was illegal to monitor a torrent swarm, which meant you could somewhat safely seed torrents, despite it being illegal.
That loophole was recently removed however.
[0]: https://www.ige.ch/en/intellectual-property/counterfeiting-a...
[1]: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/1798_1798_1798/en#ar...