> Yup. I use ProtonVPN on account of its Swiss jurisdiction and no-logs policy.
Can switzerland even be considered "non-cooperative"? I mean, most people probably think so because of their reputation as a an "offshore bank", but that's been eroded due to the passing of FATCA.
Switzerland is interesting from a copyright aspect in multiple ways:
- Downloading copyrighted material, even from obviously shady sources, is perfectly legal.
- Sharing said material with your friends, even if you obtained it from an obviously shady source, is perfectly legal.
- Sharing it with random strangers (as happens while torrenting) is not legal, but hard to prosecute, because:
- private companies collecting IP addresses to sue uploaders violate privacy laws, and thus commit a crime themselves (!) [1]
I didn't check, but I'd also assume:
- That ISPs and VPN providers aren't required (and quite likely even aren't allowed) to disclose the identity behind an IP address to a private entity
- That VPN providers (unlike ISPs) aren't required to maintain such logs, and thus typically don't.
For comparison, in Germany, downloading from "obviously illegal" sources is prohibited, further sharing a copy from such sources among friends is prohibited (and since breaking copy protection is prohibited too, having a DRM-free copy of the content is a pretty strong indicator that it comes from an illegal source - unless you got it from a Swiss friend...).
Can switzerland even be considered "non-cooperative"? I mean, most people probably think so because of their reputation as a an "offshore bank", but that's been eroded due to the passing of FATCA.