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underlines on April 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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.

Youden on April 23, 2022 [–]

> 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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