BitTorrent blocking: TorGuard VPN’s firewall nixes torrents on US servers
Multiple VPNs have blocked BitTorrent to settle piracy lawsuits from movie companies.
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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