[pp.int.general] Swiss Federal Court ruled

Pascal Gloor pascal.gloor at partipirate.ch
Wed Sep 8 17:12:28 CEST 2010


Dear Fellow International Pirates,

Today something unexpected happened, we're not yet sure of all implications it has.

The Swiss Federal Court ruled against Logistep AG (working for the IFPI, collecting IP addresses data linked with shared content). IP addresses are now part of "personal data" equal to your name, your phone number, your social security number (and so on). Personal data is very well protected in Switzerland as you may know. Logistep has announced they will move ASAP to Germany since their activity is now illegal in Switzerland.

Having now IP addresses recognised as personal data has a quite large impact. "Someone" is not allowed to publish your IP linked to an activity (think at anonymous edits of the wikipedia, think at webalizer stats, think at mailinglists that publish your IP!).

As you may know, 'Downloading' is legal in Switzerland while 'Uploading/Sharing' is not. But now, since the IPs are protected by law, one is not allowed to collect this information anymore, even if collected outside Switzerland, it cannot be used in court in Switzerland. This makes Switzerland, virtually, a P2P paradise.

The bad news is, that our parliament will urge itself to make a new law to "solve the sharing problem".

that's for the news, here's a link in english:

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9I3Q6500

There's more, just google after "logistep'.

See you,
Pascal



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Pascal Gloor
Vice President of the Pirate Party Switzerland
http://www.partipirate.ch



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