Heavy VPN users are probably pirates, says BBC

[jack_christie]

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC that markets its products around the world, has told Australia's government that heavy users of ?IP obfuscation tools? are so suspicious that internet service providers (ISPs) should consider them as likely content pirates.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/09/heavy_vpn_users_are_probably_pirates_says_bbc/

 

[prizrak]

It's true, whenever I VPN into my home network from work its to watch pirated shows/movies

 

[shootingwallsbecausebored]

In other news, water is wet.

 

[thomas]

I fail to see the correlation between VPN usage and body weight.

 

[Perc]

The obvious way to stem piracy would be to give its viewers abroad legal options to consume content. But nooo.

 

[laughingfog]

Yes I agree, that is the pirate way to hide their identities. Well, do VPN keep logs and report those logs to authority?

 

[Aston Martin]

No, VPN is used to get proper Netflix.

 

[Perc]

Well, do VPN keep logs and report those logs to authority?

Seeing as most of these services cater to "tv pirates", no, I don't think they keep logs. And they don't 'report' them, altough they might have to hand them over if they were attacked by a ton of lawyers asking them to do so.

Which is why I don't think they keep logs.