Copyright Policy

How Barely-Free VPN handles copyright notices, including DMCA notices. Last updated 2026-09-24.

What we are

A VPN: we carry encrypted traffic between your device and the internet. We do not host, store, publish or index anyone's content, so there is nothing we can take down.

What we can and cannot see

Our servers keep connection details in memory for about 15 minutes only. After that we cannot tell which key used one of our addresses at a given time, so we cannot identify a customer from an IP address and a time.

Sending a notice

Email [email protected] (the subject is filled in) and include:

• your name and address, and those of the owner if you act for them;
• the work you say is infringed, and your interest or right in it;
• the IP address and port, and the exact date and time (UTC with time zone) of the activity;
• what the claimed infringement is;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and that the notice is accurate.

Under Canada's Copyright Act, a notice may not include an offer to settle, or a demand for payment or for personal information, or a link to one. Such a notice is not one we must forward, and we do not forward it.

What we do with it

We handle notices under Canada's notice-and-notice rules (Copyright Act, sections 41.25 and 41.26). As soon as we can, we forward a valid notice to the holder of the key that used the address at that time, if we can tell which key it was and have a way to reach them, and we tell you that we did; otherwise we tell you why we could not. We charge nothing for this. We never give you who the customer is.

In the United States we act as a conduit for connections our users start (17 U.S.C. § 512(a)): we store no content, so there is nothing to take down. We keep, and apply where we can, a policy of ending the keys of people who repeatedly infringe copyright.

File sharing

BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer traffic is blocked on our servers.