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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
by 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 agoHow hard can it be to disable upload in bittorrent clients and be a bad but considerably more legal torrent citizen?
- syjer 12y agonot 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.