Hi * on the Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:28:56AM +0200, Xaver Aerni wrote: > Laut gewissen Papieren, will auch die Schweiz, bzw gewisse Kreise, das > Kopieren und Downloaden für den Privatgebrauch verbieten.
They don't know what they are doing. Prohibiting "Downloading" will essentially criminalize everyone and inhibit just about every form of communication. Because every one of us is a content creator. I am, with this e-mail. So unless I would give you an explicit license to download this here mail, you'd already be violating the law. And think of all the kittens! Every lolcat-picture in the internet is actually subject to copyright. And with downloading prohibited, you'll be violating copyright every time you look at one of those. So either a) prohibit downloading but only pursue violations of the copyright of certain well-known entities (which of course flies in the face of legal equality) or b) prohibit downloading and pursue violations at will (which of course is illegal as hell, the practicioners are known as "police states") or c) prohibit downloading try to pursue all violations, which in turn makes us a nation of criminals in which nobody practically may own anything, or communicate with anyone, in electronical form. Welcome to the pre-digital age). I can of course only presume the proponents of that scheme have a) in mind when they wrote their idiotic babble, and did not ever think about that under their proposition every member of their working group would be violating this new law hundreds of times per day. Cheers Seegras -- "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "It's also true that those who would give up privacy for security are likely to end up with neither." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
