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Swiss DMCA Quietly Adopted

Posted By Bryan Andrews On November 30, 2007 @ 8:28 am In External Articles | No Comments

“We have seen a lot of talk over the years about [1] the Canadian DMCA. But few know about the Swiss version recently adopted by law makers … not even the Swiss people. The government and media have been very quiet, probably to avoid a referendum. Indeed, Switzerland is a direct democracy and if 50,000 citizens sign a referendum, the whole country will have a chance to vote against the new copyright law. In this version of the DMCA, sharing a file on P2P networks [2] will land you one year in jail, even though the law mandates a levy on blank media. The [3] history of the law is available online.”

Source: [4] Slashdot

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[1] the Canadian DMCA: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/29/1523217&tid=266
[2] will land you one year in jail: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/28/swiss-dmca-coming-do.html
[3] history of the law: http://www.ige.ch/E/jurinfo/j103.shtm
[4] Slashdot : http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/30/0452206

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