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OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day (torrentfreak.com)
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In a brief statement citing a court order in Belgium but providing no other details, Cisco says that its OpenDNS service is no longer available to users in Belgium. Cisco's withdrawal is almost certainly linked to an IPTV piracy blocking order obtained by DAZN; itt requires OpenDNS, Cloudflare and Google to block over 100 pirate sites or face fines of €100,000 euros per day. Just recently, Cisco withdrew from France over a similar order.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 72 points 3 months ago

as soon as you're compromised you will never convince anyone you're trustworthy ever again.

removing your service is the only viable option when faced with this kind of overreach.

[-] AbaixoDeCao@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

OpenDNS? No way.

On August 27, 2015, Cisco acquired OpenDNS (Wikipedia)

[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

How do they make their service "not available" to a country?

By IP address location? Which, in my understanding, is not accurate.

By terms, stating "you can't use it if you live there"?

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