Why don't VPN companies penalize piracy?

Question

VPN

In the Russian Federation, as far as I know, nothing happens for torrents (not for technology, but for downloading and seeding movies). Well, almost nothing. (Someone may know if there have been cases of punishing someone, especially large seeds?)

But recently, on the server of a European customer (in hetzner), I installed a VPN for myself, downloaded something, and a warning complaint arrived - instantly! (everything happens automatically). He apologized to him, promised that "no more, no more", in general, just in case, he demolished the VPN there so as not to set it up a second time. Hope everything will be ok.

But how do VPN companies work? Through many of them, including those that provide free VPN access, torrents work quite well for themselves, and copyright content is downloaded. The company may be registered in a specific country where this is permitted. But after all, she has servers all over the world, including in the same Germany, where this is unacceptable. Do they receive abuse letters from copyright companies and hosters? How do they react to them and what are the consequences?

Is it possible to set up a server yourself and stupidly respond politely and promptly to all complaints - "Yes, we believe that someone distributed copyrighted content from our server, we have a VPN and a client from Honduras, he can, go fuck yourself, thanks"? Or even just answer "I myself am from Honduras, I can"?

This is also interesting because I kept a server at Scaleway in the Netherlands for a long time, used a VPN and I’m not 100% sure, but it seems that I also downloaded torrents and there were definitely no complaints.

Answer 1

Thinking about why vpns are free or very cheap, why they allow you to do everything at all, makes you wonder if vpns do the function of deanomization, not anomization.
You can also open the link.
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

Answer 2

firstly, they are punished, letters of happiness arrive at the vpn hoster, and there, depending on his involvement in legal means of robbing the population, either he ignores or he points fingers at the culprit.
many vpn services prohibit the use of torrents or, for example, tor for this reason
. Secondly, the copyright holder can monitor content localized in the country where the vpn is located, and you, as a user of this vpn, download other content localized in another country, perhaps this is not the perfection of the tools surveillance?
The copyright holder sees the hash of the torrent file, can see the file name (which in the torrent file is only an optional description, non-binding), sees a list of ip addresses from which the distribution is being made and to which the download is taking place, that's all.

Answer 3

Umm. And you don’t download the distribution itself through vpn and there will be no problem.
No one forbids downloading the magnet link from the site, and hatzner too

Answer 4

Just because you were redirected to an abuse email doesn't mean you have to follow the instructions in it. It depends on the terms of the jurisdiction, the contractual relationship with you and the hoster, the policy of the site.
Somewhere you don’t need to answer and take action on such DMCA infringements, somewhere it’s enough to answer that you have a VPN / proxy without logging, and it’s not possible to calculate a specific violator, and somewhere you will be blocked the server after 3-5 similar messages.
Read the terms of service of your hoster, find out in advance how he reacts to complaints.

Answer 5

Here's an interesting case too. There is no hope for vpn
https://www.securitylab.ru/news/530569.php