Quad9 Blocks Pirate Site Globally After Sony Demanded €10,000 Fine * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] starlord2014@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Run your own DNS Resolver like Unbound.

[-] al_ways_gone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do tld providers ignore this or why isn't it getting blocked there too? Not just regarding this particular case

[-] Syl@jlai.lu 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 30 points 1 year ago

They're a non-profit IIRC, so no money to battle Sony in court

[-] P1r4nha@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

Yup, they are trying to establish easy precedence. Quad9 has not enough funds to battle the suit, even tough they are probably the least guilty party.

Targeting DNS services is an interesting strategy, but if you know how the technology works it's also a silly one. Attacking those who only translate your request to access a site hosting copy righted content instead of the operator or host... or users for that matter.

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

but if you know how the technology works

That's like what, 2% of online users globally? Let's say pirates are marginally more tech savvy, so maybe 10% of pirates? If their plan works and they can get google to block access to all sorts of streaming and torrenting sites, that will massively reduce the numbers of people accessing illegal content.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.lumendatabase.org/

Targeting DNS and killing traffic to an entire site is easier than the constant drumbeat of sending out takedowns for specific links to everyone. Way over the top, and of course they wouldn't try it against a big opponent. Would love to see them make a case that YouTube should be globally DNS blocked, after all look at all the infringing videos and music that's on there daily.

[-] 4am@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The defendant is liable as a perpetrator because it makes its DNS resolver available to Internet users and, through this, it refers to the canna.to service with the infringing download offers relating to the music album in dispute,” the Court wrote.

Scary, since this could essentially establish a precedent that anyone who hosts DNS must concede to these types of demands. That includes Google, Meta, Verizon, CloudFlare, and every ISP on the planet. As well as the root servers.

Fuck that noise.

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