Downloading music and movies: legal in Switzerland

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Downloading music and movies: legal in Switzerland

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Slashdot wrote:One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet, and — since last year — the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published, and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.
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So we need to download through a Swiss server and store them on a Swiss cloud - then we will be legal too?
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since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.
Oh my goodness... :facepalm:
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Brb, Switzerland.
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Ron2K wrote:
Slashdot wrote:... but the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products.
Have to play both sides here. It is like having a complete demo of the full version. If you like it you will buy it, if not you let it go. So on that one there is no loss of revenue, just a loss of sale.

The next one would be how many people keep what they downloaded without paying for it?
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I like the idea of people being allowed to try before they buy, or the fact that there are games and movies which are long out of print and so on being available on torrent sites. I'm still not a fan of these freeloaders.
“Every time a new media technology has been made available, it has always been ‘abused’. This is the price we pay for progress. Winners will be those who are able to use the new technology to their advantages and losers those who missed this development and continue to follow old business models,” the report notes.
Yes, that's how capitalism works. Well done. That's why we have Steam, GamersGate, etc.
... these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary.
And this is where the stupid begins. It is up to producers to gauge supply and demand, and they do it through observing what sells well and what does not. Pirates create inefficiencies in the system that messes that up.What happens when record labels decide to spend more capital making Hannah Montana branded plastic tumblers than on promoting new artists :?:
The other side of piracy, based on the Dutch study, is that downloaders are reported to be more frequent visitors to concerts, and game downloaders actually bought more games than those who didn’t.
Gamers download more games than non-gamers and casual gamers? That's shocking!
And in the music industry, lesser-know bands profit most from the sampling effect of file-sharing.
Maybe, but we have youtube, myspace, and other sites for that.
The Swiss report then goes on to review several of the repressive anti-piracy laws and regulations that have been implemented in other countries recently
Some good points I agree with, but not being able to effectively enforce a law is no good reason to scrap it. Making piracy legal just condones it.
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Bladerunner wrote:Brb, Switzerland.
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