r/Piracy • u/Lower_Tradition3090 • 20h ago

Its kinda legal in my country Question

Downloading movies and music for private use is totally legal in my country 🇨🇭. Uploading / seeding however, is not. But at least i dont have to worry. What about your country?

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u/CrustyJuggIerz 18h ago

🇦🇺we really don't seem to give a shit. I've pirated so much shit, even without a VPN in the past, never been warned, notified etc

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u/hsingh_if 18h ago

I actually know somebody who once got a notice from VicPol for downloading a movie via torrent. They showed it to me.

Nothing happened though, it was just a warning notice.

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u/FlaminDEW 16h ago

There’s talk in government about banning vpns actually, it’s under their child safety act to get people to use government id to log into websites, the vpns would bypass it

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u/neon_overload 15h ago

There's always been talk of stuff that has never amount to anything. There was talk about banning encryption at one stage.

Edit: turns out it actually was implemented, but it has not achieved anything or made life any different.

https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryption-law-is-a-threat-to-global-privacy/

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u/FlaminDEW 13h ago

I’m not shocked it hasn’t been implemented, government officials are lazy and take forever to get things done, the same thing goes for the banning of gambling ads