I’ve wondered for years when the copyright cartels would start going after VPN users.

Looks like that time has arrived.

Never mind all the legitimate uses of VPN. Governments and many corporations who spy on you already hate it as it prevents them from doing that, so it’s a natural target.

VPN won’t go away, though. It can’t. However in the future, it will require licensing and also your traffic to be monitored by using a government-mandated man-in-the-middle attack. (That is without getting too technical your traffic will be required to go through a proxy of sorts “for your safety” where it will then be examined.)

The licensing scheme will basically mean a private user without a company sponsorship won’t be able to sign up for a VPN account. This is the future, alas. It’s the only way they can keep control, so they will do it.