AirVPN is also based out of Italy right? I wonder what will eventually happen for AirVPN which is highly recommended after Mullvad VPN closed their port forwarding offer.

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    It really surprised me that they’re based in Italy.

    Between all the Western countries it’s the stupidest one to base a VPN company. The management risks prison time for little gain, why not Cyprus or the Caribbean like anyone else? Open a shell company in the Bahamas and still operate from Perugia if they really like to live in the Italian countryside

    Italy is a country controlled by copyright trolls, for an Italian citizen using them as a piracy VPN is an insane idea, why not just be unprotected at that point?

    It’s almost like choosing China or Russia as base

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      9 months ago

      Yeah when I was looking for a replacement of Mullvad VPN AirVPN came to my radar but I didn’t choose it because it was based on Italy which I was confused.

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    I hope AirVPN can still stay in business. I also hope that other governments don’t start getting ideas.

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    It is every citizen’s duty to make the government block as many IP addresses as possible. When the Italians have no Internet, maybe they’ll reconsider.

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      The soccer clubs are a big business in Italy so they just force the government to pass a law to be more strict about piracy. Now I think Italy is one of the worst places to be a pirate , because everyone has to stop you from pirating. Your ISP , the DNS server , and even VPN’s.