[lawl]

Uploading isn't legal, but neither is collecting the IPs of people who upload from torrent swarms, so enforcing that is... Uh... Difficult.

Edit: Source (german) https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmittei...

Machine translation (deepl):

> According to today's ruling by the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne, IP addresses are clearly personal data, which means they fall under the Data Protection Act. Furthermore, in a majority decision, the highest court considers it inadmissible for private companies to secretly research IP addresses. According to today's Federal Court decision, there is no sufficient justification for this. With immediate effect, the company Logistep AG is no longer allowed to collect and pass on data, i.e. it must stop all data processing in the area of copyright.

[jethro_tell]

Side note, but ips being pii is pretty tricky. Think about all the places an IP is logged in the clear.

I think they are probably on the right path here but I've never worked somewhere that wouldn't be breaking the rules here.