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If the VPN is for phoning home, of course there's free client and server software.
But if it's for spoofing a different location, you either get found out, or you have to pay.
I wanna live in a world where I do not pay for anything but there is stuff that you can only really get if you pay.
Yeah. I just thu that in there thinking that in as an example. Of course, you're right, you'd get clinked.