In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From the VPN provider’s perspective, site blocking threatens online freedom. Swiss provider ProtonVPN describes blocking as ‘a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed’.
Ironically, pirating is also largely ignored (unless things have changed in last couple of years) due to politicians inability to understand, and therefore, “regulate”, the internet