stifle867

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I found a number of articles specifically stating that video games and software remain illegal. Unfortunately I couldn't pinpoint the specific part of the law as they appear to br written in French and was running into hurdles with Google Translate character limits that I couldn't be bothered to work around.

I'm not sure if it's explicitly illegal or if music, videos, etc are explicitly exempted, or if software etc is different due to terms of service for example.

Furthermore, it's illegal for anyone to record your IP address torrenting a work and track you down that way as it violates Swiss data protection laws.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

In Switzerland, individuals are still free to download whatever files they like for their own private use (except for software and video games).

Note that uploading or seeding a copyrighted work, which was a misdemeanor under the previous law, remains illegal.

source: With P2P law, Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to privacy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

oceanofpdf also has a lot of direct downloads for ebooks and they're very good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

We want to make sure the increasing use of digital payments occurs in a way that helps promote greater competition, innovation and productivity across our entire economy.

If we are to take this stated goal at face value it would seem to be a good thing. Getting ahead of the curve before the tech giants find a way to turn these products against us.

The problem is a lot of Australian's will not take this at face value especially in the current climate of the movement away from physical cash. It's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt that they are doing this to protect the Australian people with the lack of any sort of harm or complaint. Feel free to point out if there's something I'm not thinking about regarding this point.

Personally, this smells extremely fishy to me and the most likely explanation in my mind is that they want to kneecap the tech giants and allow our financial sector to push in this space. I can't imagine CBA, ANZ, etc particularly enjoying their control over this space being eroded. They have every opportunity to innovate in the space but they're clearly lacking the drive to do so. Instead of improving competition by forcing the big banks to step up, they're knee capping actual innovation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So much of our economy is export driven. Particularly to China and particularly coal. Sad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

If the photos go to a private directory but you are now rooted you should be able to directly access that directory and copy the files out. This is assuming that they are stored as regular files in that directory instead of being solely in the sqlite db. Does that work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which model do you have? Mine doesn't have a "home screen". It turns on to the last used input. There is a bar that pops up from the bottom with all the apps on it and that opens when you turn it on. Honestly I didn't realise how different the UI may be across different models.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If it's an official commentary you can usually find them via torrents if you download the disc rips. It's usually not the most popular torrent for that movie as the file sizes tend to be much larger.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That's truly as lightweight as you're going to get. Cool little script.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you like Heimdall you could run it without Docker. It's a PHP app, you could run nginx and it would be pretty lightweight.

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