107

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

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, this is interesting to me. Google and Cloudflare are for-profit companies that have presence in the EU at minimum, and probably France directly as well although I don’t know that for sure. If they refused to comply, France can fine their local EU subsidiary and block their ability to receive payments from eu entities.

Quad9 is a not-for-profit located in Switzerland. I wouldn’t expect them to need local subsidiaries, as they aren’t doing business in the EU or anywhere else. The France could fine them, but they’d have no way of collecting if Quad9 refused to pay right? It’s a free service, so there’s nothing to block on the payment processor side that would prevent French users from accessing it. You’d have to blackhole all traffic to the quad9 IPs on a national level right?

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah ud have to blackhole the ip. Which would mean u would need a national firewall filtering every single citizens network traffic. It might also violate net neutrality. Plus ud also have to bully every single satelite internet company into complying (good luck with elon lol).

Its possible but would be a right pain in the ass and huge violation of internet freedoms and possibly free speach itself.