Well, either it isn't going to stop those who sail the high seas, there be many pirate ports along the eastern sea. Well, there's a glaring loophole in this agreement, it seems to apply to only US based servers (correct if I'm wrong). So apparently Torrenting is now blocked by certain VPN providers (that I haven't heard of before today) that have sued by Entertainment companies. VPN Unlimited signed a similar deal a few weeks ago, and last year VPN.ht also agreed to block torrent traffic on US servers." An exhibit of allegedly infringed works submitted by plaintiffs lists dozens of movies, including Dallas Buyers Club, Hellboy, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Rambo: Last Blood, and Tesla. Due to the nature of shared IPs and related hardware technicalities of how TorGuard's network was built, it is impossible for us to do so." TorGuard also said its "customer base has never been sold or acquired."Īs TorrentFreak wrote yesterday, "TorGuard is not the first VPN service to agree to block BitTorrent traffic to settle a lawsuit filed by these movie companies. TorGuard further said it "has not been forced to log network usage data. "No reputable company that intends to stay in business can operate outside of the law, regardless of what country it chooses to incorporate in," TorGuard wrote, adding that "we operate transparently within the USA as it offers our clients the strongest consumer privacy protections with no mandatory data logging requirements." Although the BitTorrent blocking was clearly spurred by the VPN company's decision to settle the lawsuit, TorGuard said that its "commitment to user privacy and service reliability is the reason we have taken measures to block BitTorrent traffic on servers within the United States." "This month, TorGuard has begun taking measures to block BitTorrent traffic on servers in the United States," the company said. TorGuard issued a statement on its website yesterday after the settlement was reported by Bleeping Computer. The plaintiffs' claims against TorGuard "are hereby dismissed with prejudice, each party to bear its own costs and attorneys' fees," said the filing in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. "Pursuant to a confidential settlement agreement, Plaintiffs have requested, and Defendant has agreed to use, commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic on its servers in the United States using firewall technology," according to a joint stipulation filed on March 3 by plaintiffs and defendant VPNetworks, which does business under the name TorGuard.
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