In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From the VPN provider’s perspective, site blocking threatens online freedom. Swiss provider ProtonVPN describes blocking as ‘a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed’.
Watch out for Spain trying to block Cloudfare-hosted pirate sites with DNS. A judge the other day just said they can keep at it.
FK France. I love the country, but I hate how the government of France is against freedom and privacy. France has also the most Internet restrictions in place of all EU countries.
And then what they did to Telegram. One can’t trust that platform anymore, since the spooks have been given the keys to the kingdom.
Fact! If the telegram ceo didn’t gave the keys, he was still in prison now in France.
Weirdly OG freedom enjoyers don’t appreciate digital freedom?
And they are pushing this to protect “property” rights of some parasites?
Ironically, pirating is also largely ignored (unless things have changed in last couple of years) due to politicians inability to understand, and therefore, “regulate”, the internet
Maybe Proton should quit being buddy buddy with the US government and US big tech if they want us to take them seriously about this
This seems hilariously unenforceable.
Yup. If your VPN complies, just pick one in a different country.
Net result: VPN company loses customers.
And if the good commercial VPN options are exhausted - you rent a VPS and set up your own)
Yup, I set one up for myself and it didn’t take much time at all.
