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EU's top court protects VPNs in landmark copyright ruling
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The EU's top court ruled that VPN providers are not automatically liable for users bypassing geo-blocks, and publishers cannot hold them responsible if circumvention occurs. The judgment establishes that publishers must implement state-of-the-art geo-blocking rather than impossible-to-break systems, setting a legal precedent for EU copyright disputes.
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If you build or sell content distribution, you can no longer claim VPN users are attacking you—you now have to implement genuine geo-blocking, not security theatre. That shifts your liability from tool-makers to yourself, and opens a gap for smarter regional licensing startups.
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