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Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

Posted by timothy on from the wish-that-sanity-was-contagious dept.

wasimkadak writes "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."

3 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. Berne Convention by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting that one of the more famous copyright conventions is named after a Swiss city.

  2. Holy smoke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A government that makes a common sense. Time to move to Swiss

    Very interesting stats and observation
      However, these people donâ(TM)t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary. "

    My favorite part
    "The overall suggestion the Swiss government communicates to the entertainment industries is that they should adapt to the change in consumer behavior, or die"

  3. Re:Sanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was just thinking about this today. How fucking great would it be to have royalties coming in on all the COBOL Y2K fixes I made for the next hundred years, or if I shouldn't survive that long, to have them go to my family.