TorGuard bans BitTorrent traffic!
TorGuard bans BitTorrent traffic!
"No logs" VPN provider TorGuard has reached a legal settlement with over two dozen movie studios that sued the company for encouraging piracy and copyright infringement. In the settlement, TorGuard has agreed to block BitTorrent traffic for its users.
After a lengthy $10,000,000 lawsuit, TorGuard has conceded to movie studios and is now banning BitTorrent traffic and is now keeping logs on American users and servers.
This article is from March of last year, and a quick google seems to show that’s when most outlets covered this story. Am I right in seeing that this is a year-old story? The article mentioning things that happened in 2021 as “last year” caught my attention
I don't mind too much, I didn't know TorGuard was blocking that traffic or logging American users but now I do. So I appreciate the article in that regard but the post should've been titled like "Reminder that TorGuard tracks American users" or something rather than being presented as new info imo.
Yeah that’s basically my view as well. I don’t take issue with posting “old news”, so long as it’s presented as such. This is good for people to know, especially TorGuard users who are unaware, but the lens people use to understand a story changes depending on whether they think it’s a new development or an old fact, so some distinction is good
This was news at the time, but the truth is that they blocked BT traffic from US servers, not worldwide.
If nothing has changed, this is mostly a non-story.
Just think of this as more of a YSK, instead of breaking news. 😉
Gotta fill up that content somehow
Yes. This is true
I use PIA, and so far torrents still work. It sounds like the film studios are going after smaller VPNs or VPNs that make it obvious that they're piracy friendly.
I'm curious as to what kind of action they could potentially take against providers that are incorporated overseas, but have servers located in the U.S.
One more fell
Nothing can stop a seedbox haha