Rightsholders Target VPN Providers in French Court to Block Piracy * TorrentFreak
French rightsholders are expanding their site blocking efforts to VPN providers, including NordVPN, ExpressVPN and ProtonVPN.
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Similar to the DNS resolver cases, the legal paperwork cites Article 333-10 of the French Sports Code.
So the legal base for this bullshit is and can only be applied for illegal sports streaming within france. Sucks for the impacted parties but I don't see this having any broader repercussions
I could see it turning into potentially more via EU and the excuse that VPN should be nuked from orbit... Too many politicians of the mind to backdoor everything like e2e already; this is just another thorn of many.
Hopefully you are right and this is isolated.
Businesses and institutions need VPNs to function. Getting rid of them would be an absolute disaster.
Businesses using VPNs is an entirely different matter. It's possible to outlaw VPN services or rather make them usable for piracy. E.g. requiring VPN providers to know who their users are and providing info to law enforcement wouldn't impact businesses at all.
A similar example are emulators: Depending on how laws are interpreted it's entirely possible that there's no way to legally emulate Nintendo Switch. This wouldn't prevent Nintendo or any other company to emulate their own hardware.
Outlawing encryption unless your a politician is also something which gets brought up from time to time. Laws are full exceptions.
TL;Dr
There're many ways to outlaw only a specific use case without
I agree, it's inane. But just like wanting back doors to e2e encryption, some idiot politicians will push for it despite for sure.