PayPal blocks VPN, SmartDNS provider’s payments over copyright concerns

Posted by BernardSwiss on Feb 8, 2016 10:03 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Glyn Moody
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PayPal has stopped accepting payments for Canadian outfit UnoTelly—a provider of VPN and SmartDNS services—because these might be used to facilitate copyright infringement.

UnoTelly said in an update on its website that Paypal had "severed payment processing agreement unilaterally and without prior warning." It added: "Paypal indicated that UnoTelly is not allowed to provide services that enable open and unrestricted Internet access."

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