using gce as a vpn !!

[MOHAMED AHMED]

hi

i saw some tutorials online for using gce as your own vpn service "your own private vpn" so is  this legal 

what if people used it for torrent ? the ip is registered for google ?  

[Justin Reiners]

VPN is legal, we use it for business, torrents are legal depending on what you are doing, yes the IP shows as Google owned.

I'd recommend if you are going to not stay within the legality lines on Google Cloud, You might want to look into another host. 

I keep it straight and narrow in their cloud and I have never had a single issue with well over 100 machines/instances/and supporting services for my business.

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[MOHAMED AHMED]

Thanks for your response 

but what defines the limit of legal ? i mean what might be legal in one country might not be in the other 

 

بتاريخ الخميس، 19 أبريل، 2018 9:26:42 م UTC+3، كتب Justin Reiners:

VPN is legal, we use it for business, torrents are legal depending on what you are doing, yes the IP shows as Google owned.

I'd recommend if you are going to not stay within the legality lines on Google Cloud, You might want to look into another host. 

I keep it straight and narrow in their cloud and I have never had a single issue with well over 100 machines/instances/and supporting services for my business.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:54 AM, MOHAMED AHMED <habi30...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi

i saw some tutorials online for using gce as your own vpn service "your own private vpn" so is  this legal 

what if people used it for torrent ? the ip is registered for google ?  

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[Justin Reiners]

Its a little gray but I'd stake it as, if you pirate movies, software, movies, music etc, and it's against either your local laws and regulations or where Google is doing business, that would constitute as not legal I am guessing.

I'd just hate to have them shut you off for copyright claims. I've seen Google kill machines for running bitcoin mining during trials, I wouldn't' put it past them, or even blame them if they did.

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[Digil (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Mohamed,

Supporting to the responses posted by the other member, I highly recommend you to read the 'Google Cloud Platform ToS' before using the GCP and its related products. If you under a 'Free Tier', you might also need to check the Supplemental Terms and Conditions as well.    

Furthermore, you might also want to check this podcast reference(an interview with the cloud abuse team) and Google Cloud platform’s acceptable use policy, where an overview of various abuse and applicable agreement between Customer and Google has been discussed.