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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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[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wouldn't DNSSEC makes the whole poisoning moot?

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In general DNS poisoning is not a very effective measure as these companies point out in the article.

There are simpler ways to block access, they noted, pointing out that the measures would not be effective because users could use VPNs or other DNS resolvers to bypass the blocks.