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Also with init7, very happy with my 1Gbps line. I'd probably even take a 300Mbps if it was half the price. Even with gigabit LAN I don't saturate the line more than a few seconds a day on things like updates, and anything from my RPi NAS isn't going to saturate it anyways.

Please note too, piracy is not legal in Switzerland. What is illegal is the spying and tracking which would be necessary to build a case and prosecute pirates. Technically you could still self-incriminate if you documented all of your piracy, with proof, and published it online.



Downloading is legal in Switzerland. For a nice authoritative source, here's the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (part of the Department of Justice and Police)[0]: "Downloading copyright-protected works for private use is permitted in Switzerland (Art. 19 CopA)."

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...


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.


> 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.




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