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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm a little puzzled about why you think that this is going to affect Sweden?
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We don't have international law. Each country has to decide what is the best way to handle piracy. I think this is better than what has been done in most places. Laws in the US facilitate the extortion of their citizens by big media companies, with the only evidence being an IP address. In Switzerland, they remove any penalty from the downloader and go after the source, the uploader.
I don't think this effects Switzerland much really, my commentary was meant more to say that I think this kind of policy would be good to adopt in other countries. Torrent sites hide behind the fact that they don't actually host pirated data... then change the laws so that it doesn't matter. Forget trying to go after downloaders and start going after uploaders and anyone who facilitates that uploading. It would be easy enough to distinguish a torrent site with legal content from one with illegal content too. Once you've gone after uploaders effectively, downloaders will have very little to download from.
EDIT: Yah... I got mixed up...