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VPN Unlimited has settled a copyright lawsuit filed by several movie companies. The VPN provider stood accused of failing to take action against subscribers who were pirating films. As part of the settlement, the company agreed to block BitTorrent traffic and prominent pirate sites including 'Pirate Bay,' 'YTS', and 'RARBG' on U.S. servers.

> VPN Unlimited has settled a copyright lawsuit filed by several movie companies. The VPN provider stood accused of failing to take action against subscribers who were pirating films. As part of the settlement, the company agreed to block BitTorrent traffic and prominent pirate sites including 'Pirate Bay,' 'YTS', and 'RARBG' on U.S. servers.

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so basically fucking off 99% of their customers

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The full details of the settlement agreement are confidential.

Think they are tattling on users who downloaded the latest shitpile coming out of Hollywood?

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I bet the same kikes who pushed for the lawsuit are the same ones who pushed for "net neutrality".

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If you read further down it looks like they were encouraging pirating as part of their advertising, which is probably what gave the lawsuits teeth. Stupid, in my opinion.