After 2 years of legal battle, criminal charges were dropped and founder Yegor Sak has been acquitted by a Greek court.
This story is unusual in the way that the owner and founder of the VPN service himself was directly accused and criminal proceedings initiated against him - reminding of the strategy used against Pavel Durov by French authorities.
Much was at stake here, as Yegor Sak commented:
“This was not just about me. It was about drawing a hard legal line around the role of privacy infrastructure providers. As we do not log user activity, we cannot hand over what we do not have.”
“Some say VPNs should be banned because a few people misuse them. By that logic, we should also ban hammers and cars.”
Great publicity for this little-known privacy-centric VPN service, which by the way does not advertize at all nor pays VPN reviewers; and grows only by word-of-mouth!
I am considering subscribing to the service - anyone using it already? What do you think of it?