Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak
Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak
Trying to fight piracy like this is just an endless game of whack-a-mole. Countries should not be wasting time with laws, let the corporations suffer until they provide a better product.
Hard agree. Government exists to make the populaces life better. It's WHY we replaced kings with it. And yet ...
Sucks if you're in France. For the rest of us it should be interesting to see which of these VPN providers choose to comply by geo-blocking France, which choose to cut any ties they have with France and otherwise ignore the order, and which to abandon their mission and become agents of censorship on behalf of France.
They stand to lose a good portion of their business if they can't service France. They'll comply.
Malicious compliance could be of help? For example, blocking the streaming sites for their endpoints that are local to France, if any?
The rest of us
Speak for yourself.
Objectively speaking, France is not a good portion of their business.
They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.
I am sorry your VPN provider sucks so much that you are sure of something that hasn't even happened yet. Time to switch to a good one, am I right?
Don't want this to happen? Vote for a left wing party in your area or nationally. Change won't be immediate, but every vote counts. The right wingers are friends of business and unfettered capitalism. They will let this happen time and time again.
And get invested in local movements for actual left representation, especially in the US where we're stuck with 2 far right parties.
If you are going to vote, remember that that is only half of the work. The other half is having a guillotine sharpened and ready, to incentivize those who say to be an alternative to actually follow up on their word.