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It depends what you want to do with the proxy. If you're doing serious crimes like child porn, terrorism or mass hacking the government will probably ask the VP
by eloisant 9y ago
It depends what you want to do with the proxy. If you're doing serious crimes like child porn, terrorism or mass hacking the government will probably ask the VPN for logs.
But if you're just doing stuff like P2P to download content illegally, at least in France they only track IPs for the consumer ISPs. Any other IP, especially out of the country, they'll ignore.
So it doesn't matter if they have the logs, for minor things the government agencies or copyright holders will just give up and focus on the easy targets.
- laurent123456 9y agoAlso in some countries some torrent websites are blocked and a VPN gives access to these too. It's also useful to watch TV channels in other countries since they are often geo-blocked. In other countries like China there's no question that a VPN is useful. Actually whoever wrote this article seems a bit clueless about why a VPN is useful. They suggest setting up your own on a VPS but doing this in China will get your server blocked right away. That's why a third party is useful since they can offer various IPs in many countries and quickly setup new servers when they get blocked.