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Well, it remains legal to download music and movies in Switzerland (PirateBay & Co), so there's that.

• galenko 12y ago
  It's not about legality, it's about convenience, while living in the UK, I honestly stopped downloading illegal stuff and was surviving on spotify+netflix+lovefilm+bbc iPlayer. Now I'm in Latvia for a while and none of those (except for spotify) work without a proxy. So TPB is my friend again. I have no problem with paying, just make it convenient and reasonably priced (iTunes I think is not, maybe I'm not rich enough).
• syjer 12y ago
  In Switzerland, you can legally download but not upload, so bittorrent should not be considered safe. The interesting loophole for the bittorrent users is the fact that a private company cannot arvest the ip ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/switzerland-gathering-ip-addresses-from-bittorrent-sites-illegal/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/switzerland-gathe... ) addresses from trackers, thus making quite hard the prosecution. (And from past cases, it looks like they will prosecute only people that are doing it for money, not for personal use). Interesting move from netflix, but I'm quite curious how they will handle the localization of the content. Will they provide italian and french content too in Switzerland? Or like everybody else, they will ignore us linguistic minorities?
  • ben0x539 12y ago
    How hard can it be to disable upload in bittorrent clients and be a bad but considerably more legal torrent citizen?
    • syjer 12y ago
      not hard at all obviously. Anyway, given the current legal situation in Switzerland, uploading data with bittorrent while downloading some music/film is basically a no risk activity.
• k__ 12y ago
  Same here in Germany. So people are using free streaming services and direct downloads.