Questions about US Servers

[Silveron 0]

1) If I connect to a US server (such as the vega server) and since the US has such tough copyright laws would AirVPN be liable in turning over my information? Is it safer to use a server outside the US?

2) When I connected to Vega, which is located in Portland, Oregon, when I would goto the website: www.google.com it would automatically take me to www.google.hk. Why would it do this?

3) Is there only one 'exit-ip' for each server? For example if a 1,000 people were using the Vega server and someone was using it for very bad reasons could any of those other people be implicated because of that one bad user?

[Staff 9755]

1) If I connect to a US server (such as the vega server) and since the US has such tough copyright laws would AirVPN be liable in turning over my information? Is it safer to use a server outside the US?

Hello!

No, we don't keep logs and we don't have such information. We don't monitor connections and we are not interested in doing it, in order to preserve our status of mere conduit of data and not to potentially infringe any privacy and data protection EU requirement. If you suspect that some of your actions may lead to potential copyright infringement, using a server outside the USA is a courtesy to us to make our job easier against claimed and unproven infringement notices.

2) When I connected to Vega, which is located in Portland, Oregon, when I would goto the website: www.google.com it would automatically take me to www.google.hk. Why would it do this?

Because Google IP geolocation system wrongly identifies Vega exit-IP in Hong Kong. There's nothing we can do about that.

3) Is there only one 'exit-ip' for each server? For example if a 1,000 people were using the Vega server and someone was using it for very bad reasons could any of those other people be implicated because of that one bad user?

Yes, 1 exit-IP per server shared among all users. And no, they can't be implicated, of course. Liability is personal and a VPN exit-IP address does not identify a person. Besides, keep in mind that in the EU (due to a severe lack of IPv4 addresses) several ISPs already put all their customers behind NAT with shared IP addresses. For further documentation about legislation in various countries on this issue, you might be interested in past cases pertaining to TOR exit-nodes.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information

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