EU's top court protects VPNs in landmark copyright ruling

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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