TorGuard Will Prevent VPN Customers From Using BitTorrent
TorGuard has reportedly settled a lawsuit brought against it by a group of 27 movie studios in October 2021 by agreeing to stop its customers from using BitTorrent via its VPN service.
BleepingComputer reports that, per a settlement filed on March 3 with the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, TorGuard says it will "use commercially reasonable efforts to block BitTorrent traffic on its servers in the United States using firewall technology."
That's an interesting agreement from a company that says in an FAQ article that its name "relates to 'torrents' and guarding one’s privacy when using bitorrent [sic]" rather than being a reference to the popular Tor network used to anonymize internet traffic and visit onion sites.
The company also says that it "would have taken immediate steps to stop further piracy such as suspending users and adopting a firewall to filter out BitTorrent traffic as it has now begun to do" if its hosting provider, QuadraNet, had made it aware of the studios' piracy complaints.
TorGuard hasn't acknowledged the settlement on its main website, blog, or community forums. (Where some of its subscribers have expressed concern about the change following BleepingComputer's report.) The company didn't immediately respond to request for comment.
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