‘VPNs are lawful technical tools,’ says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

欧盟法院在具有里程碑意义的版权裁决中表示：“VPN 是合法的技术工具”

I’ve been following the stories around the “child protection” because on one hand it does afford children some protection, but it also hammers down on the privacy of everyone - i.e. adults who give up their privacy to prove they’re not a child. 我一直在关注有关“儿童保护”的报道，因为一方面它确实为儿童提供了一些保护，但另一方面它也严重损害了每个人的隐私——即成年人为了证明自己不是儿童而不得不放弃隐私。

VPNs in particular have been tossed around as something that the UK government would like to ban (citation needed/lacking!), which is why this article is particularly interesting: The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren’t liable for copyright infringement. 特别是 VPN，一直被传是英国政府想要封禁的对象（尚需引用来源/缺乏证据！），这就是为什么这篇文章特别引人关注：欧盟法院裁定，出版商和 VPN 提供商不对版权侵权行为承担责任。

Geo-blocking is the copyright holder’s problem, not the VPN’s. Providers are not liable for users bypassing restrictions. 地理封锁是版权所有者的问题，而不是 VPN 的问题。提供商不对用户绕过限制的行为负责。

Hopefully this draws a simple line in the sand for the UK government, and yet, who really knows what’s going through their head at any one time! 希望这能为英国政府划下一条明确的界线，然而，谁又能真正猜透他们此时此刻在想什么呢！