VPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands

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French authorities have brought legal action against some of the main VPN services, but the measures are dangerous for them.

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A legal fight between rightholders and VPN Rightholders, including Canal+ and the Ligue de football professionnelle (LFP), are intensifying their efforts to combat the piracy of audiovisual content. In their view, VPNs facilitate illegal access to sports retransmissions and other protected programs (especially with French football). Thus, several VPN services, including NordVPN, ProtonVPN, Cyberghost (by Canal+) and ExpressVPN (by La LFP), were …

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Canal+ and the LFP are launching a legal offensive against VPN providers, accused of facilitating the piracy of sports content. In response, NordVPN, ExpressVPN and other giants in the sector are threatening to stop their activities in France.

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NordVPN, ExpressVPN or Surfshark are among the VPNs that could leave France, all because of the practices of Canal+ and its struggle with illegal sports streaming, especially with regard to football.Perhaps the VPN of some VPNs in France Recently, ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App Store) IPTV article and streaming: VPNs threaten to leav…

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It is for the moment a hypothesis that has a lot of pressure. But it is an eventuality now on the table. VPN services could decide to leave France, because of a context that, according to them, becomes too unfavorable. Between the lines, they mostly criticize Canal+ and its anti-piracy policy.