VPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over ‘Dangerous’ Blocking Demands

February 24, 2025

In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to compel large VPN providers to support their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to reinforce existing blocking measures, but VPN providers see this as a dangerous move, leading to potential security issues and overblocking. As a result, some are considering leaving France altogether if push comes to shove.

exit
Copyright holders see pirate site blocking as an effective and proportional tool to combat widespread online piracy.

Over the years, courts and lawmakers in dozens of countries have agreed, resulting in a patchwork of blocking regimes around the globe.

Initially, these efforts focused on residential ISPs as the key intermediaries. While these companies were not blamed directly, they were the go-to parties to implement blocking. That proved insufficient, however.

More recently, DNS resolvers have been targeted with blocking orders. Since services such as Cloudflare, Google and OpenDNS, can be used to bypass ISP blocking efforts, courts in Germany and France have determined that DNS resolvers should take responsibility too.

Read all:

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-consider-exiting-france-over-dangerous-blocking-demands-240224/

IT’S #RELEASE TIME!

BETA version 2.0.0.beta.2 of #Lazarr!, the #pirate-themed #laser #puzzle #game is now online for testing.

Download it in #Luanti from the Content tab (#ContentDB).

The game has seen a huge overhaul.

50 levels, laser colors, Goldie the Parrot, bombs, "soft" tutorial, trigger system, islands landscape and more.

ContentDB page: https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/lazarr/
Release notes: https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?p=441941#p441941

Remember: This is still not 100% complete, but getting there.

Working on some #traditional #artwork of a #pangolin, and a themed @vancoufur #watercolor badge example for @SuperNova of her #Lynx character of the same name as a #pirate!

Members get exclusive full access to my WIPs at https://www.patreon.com/posts/traditional-art-120775054?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link and https://ko-fi.com/i/IO5O519KQQF