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Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams
(torrentfreak.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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Of course. Companies have to comply with valid orders, but not every order is legally valid. In this case, neither of the VPN companies were ever valid parties over which court established jurisdiction, making the ruling technically void.
Outside of that, in Proton case specifically, all foreign orders have to be recognised by a Swiss court to become enforceable. It's one of the claimed reasons for them incorporating the company in Switzerland in the first place.
This is absolutely true, at the moment. There seems to be a rather disturbing trend toward the erosion of privacy. I worry that this will get chipped away over time.