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Court Expands Google and Cloudflare DNS Blocking to Combat Piracy (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A highly controversial court order that required Cisco, Cloudflare, and Google to poison DNS earlier this year was just the beginning. To further combat sports piracy, broadcaster Canal+ sought several follow-up orders. Cisco had discontinued its OpenDNS service in France due to the legal restrictions, so only Google and Cloudflare put up a defense, but without the desired result.

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago

I hate to side with big tech, but they're not wrong... DNS poisoning is ineffective when pirate sites can just change domains, and users can just change DNS provider or use a VPN. It's a cat and mouse race that'll be ultimately impossible to win