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U.S. Site Blocking Bill Adds VPNs to the List of Blocking Targets
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-site-blocking-bill-adds-vpns-to-the-list-of-blocking-targets/
### The VPN War Just Got Personal
If you thought your VPN was the ultimate “get out of jail free” card for bypassing regional blocks, you might want to sit down. A new piece of legislation, the American Copyright Protection Act, is looking to turn your privacy tool into a digital bouncer.
While earlier drafts of Rep. Darrell Issa’s bill focused on ISPs and DNS resolvers, the final version has expanded its reach. It now explicitly includes VPN providers in the list of entities required to block “foreign piracy sites.”
Here is the breakdown of how this could play out:
- The Target: Large providers with over 100,000 U.S. users.
- The Speed: Courts can fast-track orders for “time-sensitive events”—think live sports broadcasts or movies that leak within 24 hours of release.
- The Headache: There’s a massive technical gray area. Should a VPN block a site only on its U.S. servers, or block it for any American user regardless of where their virtual server is located?
The bill doesn’t provide a technical roadmap, leaving providers to figure out the “how” on their own. Whether this passes remains to be seen, but the message from the Hill is clear: the fight against piracy is moving from your ISP straight to your encrypted tunnel.