I think this a world premiere, many VPN providers are ordered to block pirate website:
Indeed a court order in France is targeting NordVPN, CyberGhost, Surfshark, ExpressVPN and ProtonVPN.
I am really curious to see what will happen next.
With so many IPTV feeds…this will do nothing. I watch European futbol just fine using IPTV feeds, blocking those sites will just make pirates to just use new domains, just another cat and mouse game…
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The topic is not piracy, since it’s not relevant to privacy and security.
The topic are VPN, will they conform or resist ?
If the VPN is zero knowledge, should they know which domains are the VPNs being resolved?
I mean sure they can see people go to the site as outgoing connection.
But people can also do proxying.
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Nearly all of them have their own DNS (forwarding), so even if they aren’t logging they could still put a block in place there.
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I am not sure how you can seriously write that when the actions being taken entirely revolve around piracy. It is also very much relevant as piracy is being used as a straw man issue for governments and corporations to attack peoples privacy rights.
I think @hbxc0re is correct in pointing out this measure will do very little to stop sports streaming.
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It’s unclear to me if the order asks VPNs to block all request to those sites from their French servers, or if they ask for all french IPs connecting to any of their VPN server.
I did not wrote it revolve aroung piracy ?
I agree with you about the straw man issue.
Does that imply that if I use own DNS, I would *not* be affected by the block?
I mean one could simply go to a different server outside the jurisdiction and access from there, right?
Can VPN servers outside the country of incorporation (of the VPN company) be compelled to obey?
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