BitTorrent blocking: TorGuard VPN’s firewall nixes torrents on US servers

Multiple VPNs have blocked BitTorrent to settle piracy lawsuits from movie companies.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/torguard-vpn-blocks-bittorrent-on-us-servers-to-settle-piracy-lawsuit/

TorGuard says it operates VPN servers in 50 countries, so its users can presumably still use BitTorrent by connecting to a non-US server. Though torrenting is widely used for piracy, the peer-to-peer technology is also used for the legal distribution of files such as Linux ISOs and many types of content on the Internet Archive.

Lesson: Stay (virtually) outside the USA.

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