Post #2289872

2026-04-02 13:17 UTC

> Without a defense, the court reportedly concluded that both NordVPN and ProtonVPN actively advertise their ability to bypass geo-restrictions, citing match schedules in their marketing materials. The VPNs are therefore seen as active participants in the piracy chain rather than passive conduits, according to local media reports. How is bypassing georestrictions piracy? Also good luck actually banning VPNs. China tried that and many people there still use them. Fuck copyright law in general. It has done damage to humanity as a whole while making a wealthy few even richer.

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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 14:17

Any system whereby a thousand middlemen don’t get to get a cut of the money is illegal and immoral. /s

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@nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 13:44

Stallman is proven right more and more everyday

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@limonfiesta@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 14:18

Russia has banned them, sort of. Although I don't think their methods would work here, or rather, I don't think they could grab the kind of power necessary. Russia now has regional internet blackouts, were they effectively only allow a small number of white listed sites to be accessible. So if you you literally cannot reach the VPN servers because only a handful of Russian government websites, preferred businesses, and UK banks (oligarchs gotta oligarch) are whitelisted, well then you banned VPNs, again, sort of. They did roll out a government approved VPN for specific approved individuals and use cases, to a get around those blackouts....so that's something.

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@timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 2026-04-02 16:47

This gets repeated a lot - but for avoidance of doubt, practically no normal people use VPNs in China, and the government is very successful at blocking them. You can set up a brand new, never seen before VPN on entirely new IPs and random ports today, and at 1am tomorrow it'll be blocked. Commercial VPNs are basically unusable. (For a while, Cloudflare Warp was a very nice way around - but they put a stop to that too.) IF you have a competent government willing to put the work in, blocking VPNs is entitely doable. That "if" is probably our best hope in the west, though.

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@phonics@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 14:09

Licences for media are country specific. So vpns allow you to circumvent that. I don't beleive it's piracy. But it's....something.

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