Cloudflare Defeats Canal+ in French Piracy Case, Keeps 1.1.1.1 DNS Unblocked
Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France
A French court rejected Canal+'s request for €50,000 daily penalties against Cloudflare for not blocking pirate sports streams via its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. The court ruled that Cloudflare's CDN-level blocks are reasonable and that it cannot be held responsible for sites switching CDNs or mirrors. The decision allows Cloudflare to continue not blocking content through its public DNS, while it geoblocked over 1,200 domains via CDN in France last year.
To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver.
- Zenul_Abidin
Good. France has no business interfering with the world's DNS resolvers in the name of piracy i.e. making media companies richer and ironically shooting them in the foot by crippling the CDNs they rely on
- miohtama
The person behind this legal warfare is the beIN Sports chairman, Nasser Al-Khelaifi. He is also president of Paris Saint-Germain and chairman of Qatar Sports Investment. He is, obviously, not French.
His self-claimed annual income was about $15–25 million, and his personal wealth was about $70–100 million.
In another case a French judge just ordered VPNs to block sites Mr Al-Khelaifi wants
https://reclaimthenet.org/quad9-considers-leaving-france-ove...
- himata4113
If you really think about it a DNS service is simply a relay and a cache gathered from the decentralized nameserver cluster. If debrid services can stream actual copyrighted works without getting into trouble because they're simply a downloader (and cache), surely a dns resolver would be put into the same bucket?