Major VPN Providers Ordered to Block Pirate Sports Streaming Sites * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Population of France is 66.6 (lol) million people. If even 1% use VPNs that's a potential market of 666,000 users. At ~$5/mo per user that's a prospectus of $40 million annually. If I were a VPN provider I would absolutely want a piece of that pie rather than not, and all's they have to do is follow the law--exactly as they have been this entire time...

So yeah, I absolutely think they're going to comply.

[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

How much of the VPN market goes away after enforcing this law?

[-] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

The population of just Europe, Canada and the USA is a combined is over 1 billion. I would say those are the most common countries where people pay for VPNs.

Let's say one billion flat minus France. If just 1% of those people subscribe to a VPN at 5$/month, that's 1.2 billion dollars annually.

Who would you rather alienate, assuming they would have to alienate one or the other?

The could also just see where you are connecting from and disable this feature for just french connections. Steam can do it for NSFW games in Germany.

[-] Xanza@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The population of just Europe, Canada and the USA is a combined is over 1 billion.

Congratulations? This has absolutely nothing at all to do with what I've said. Not even tangentially. I'm expressly and singularly speaking of France here. EU, Canada and the US combined populations change nothing about what I've said at all...

You look to be fighting a wet paper bag here... Sad to see honestly.