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Why do you think these laws don’t apply to Linux?


How would you implement this on something like Arch Linux where you basically build your whole OS from scratch?


Doesn't matter. If you can't find a way to do so, then it becomes illegal to distribute or use Arch Linux.


As an American I will happily help my EU colleagues ignore this absurd law by any means necessary, even if it requires sending SD cards affixed to letters through the mail or embedding them in 3D printed trinkets. Or, more likely, simply emailing gzipped installers or providing convenient download links that circumvent whatever firewall is eventually set up (assuming this law sticks around, but it won’t).


Or use the censorship resistant protocol known as BitTorrent.

Downloading Linux ISOs just became illegal for real this time.


Literally no one is going to get arrested for installing Arch Linux.


... because they won't be able to, because the project will have been shut down.


Afaik Arch isn't German, so why would it be shut down?


This is part of a wave of similar bullshit worldwide. And we have a bunch of countries trying to enforce their bullshit extraterritorially.

Also, your lack of concern for any people or projects who may happen to actually be German is... disturbing.


No it won't




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