Anne Frank Stichting

The EU's top court ruled a geo-block only needs to be state-of-the-art, not VPN-proof, to keep a publisher in the clear. A reader who routes around it doesn't retroactively make the publication illegal — only a genuinely broken block does that.

One HN reader with 8,000+ karma wasn't convinced the precedent survives contact with real money: he predicted courts would rule differently the day a VPN is used to pull pirated football streams instead of a public-domain diary.