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It is claimed these sites facilitate piracy, and allow workarounds for users to watch popular sports content.
Providers featured on ourbest VPNlist, includingNordVPN,Proton VPN, andCyberGhost, arereportedlybeing targeted by Canal+ and LFP.
Canal+ has additionally listedExpressVPNandSurfsharkas respondents.
This is an escalation of French rightsholders' attempts to expand their domestic blocking efforts.
Last year the Paris Judicial Court granted its first DNS blocking order in favor of Canal+.
It went on to say that “VPNs are not facilitators of piracy.
They neither host, store, nor promote copyrighted material.
Such content is not discovered and referenced via privacy-focused VPN tools.
Targeting VPN services for activities they do not enable or promote is a misguided and disproportionate approach.”
We test and review VPN services in the context of legal recreational uses.
For example: 1.
Accessing a service from another country (subject to the terms and conditions of that service).
Protecting your online security and strengthening your online privacy when abroad.
We do not support or condone the illegal or malicious use of VPN services.
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