I’ve noticed many people promote VPNs for torrenting to evade legal troubles in some places. But I wonder how do VPN companies get away with legal complaints? Especially if their servers are located in Germany or Japan, where piracy is heavily penalized.

p.s. I have never used a VPN for piracy, and I have never received any DMCA emails.

  • haroldfinch@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Great comment. Here is an excerpt from Nord VPN’s TOS

    8.2 You agree that you shall not yourself and/or enable others to: •use, assist, encourage, or enable others to use the Services/Websites for any unlawful, illicit, illegal, criminal, or fraudulent activities, including … digital piracy … which might negatively affect provision of our Services to other users;

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I feel like that’s a lot of boiler plate stuff. It reminds me of Tom Scott’s video on VPN sponsorships not admitting they can be used as tools for piracy