In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From the VPN provider’s perspective, site blocking threatens online freedom. Swiss provider ProtonVPN describes blocking as ‘a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed’.
This seems hilariously unenforceable.
Yup. If your VPN complies, just pick one in a different country.
Net result: VPN company loses customers.
And if the good commercial VPN options are exhausted - you rent a VPS and set up your own)
Yup, I set one up for myself and it didn’t take much time at all.