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US Calls Switzerland An Internet Piracy Haven (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-piracy dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Office of the United States Trade Representative has published its annual Special 301 Report calling out other nations for failing to live up to U.S. IP enforcement standards. This year European ally Switzerland has been placed on the Watch List for protecting file-sharers and playing host to many pirate sites. "Generally speaking, Switzerland broadly provides high-levels of IPR protection and enforcement in its territory. Switzerland makes important contributions to promoting such protection and enforcement internationally, including in bilateral and multilateral contexts, which are welcomed by the United States," the USTR writes in its assessment.

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  1. Is this something good or bad for switzerland by NotInHere · · Score: 5, Interesting

    is this something good for swiss business, or something bad?

    I mean tax havens are doing great as well.

    1. Re:Is this something good or bad for switzerland by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Depends on who you are. Personal rights always look bad to people in control. Just ask China. They call the US a heaven for improper speech.

  2. What... by EmeraldBot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, because they refused to bow down and enforce the US's laws in their territory? That's worthy of being placed on an international watchlist now - at the same level as Russia and China, no less?

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    1. Re:What... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The world in general needs to grow a pair and tell the corporate-owned-US-government to go fuck itself to death.

    2. Re: What... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There definitely needs to be a balance between personal rights and corporate rights.

      Why?

      What is the reason you think corporations should have any rights at all? Is it not sufficient that the persons involved have their rights.
      Why do corporations need extra rights on top of that?

    3. Re: What... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      the balance should be 100% personal rights and 0% corporate rights. corporations are made of people, they are not people there fore they deserve no rights. if people have all the rights then no corporation would survive that doesn't support the people.

      when people say corporate rights, they mean a different set of rules for the people who own/run the business. Understand what you are saying when you say corporations need rights because they don't! every person should have the same rights, from the janitor to the investor.

  3. Or, you know, privacy that really means something by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yup. Just moved all my personal stuff to hostpoint.ch.

    They give you free SSL, ssh access, and they need a warrant before they'll release anything, *and* they'll tell you if a warrant has been issued.

    I've got nothing to hide. My life is disturbingly normal and boring, but it's the principle of the thing. I don't think government should rifle through every piece of my postal mail, and I don't think they should do the same to my email / digital data either.

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