Cloudflare Blocks Pirate Site URLs "For Legal Reasons" (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Cloudflare is actively disabling access to some pirate site URLs on its network, informing visitors that the requested pages are unavailable for legal reasons. While these types of 'HTTP 451' error messages are relatively rare, they are nothing more than Cloudflare complying with its legal obligations under the DMCA.

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago

they are nothing more than Cloudflare complying with its legal obligations under the DMCA

Not really news, then, is it?

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

It's important news for pirates, because if you've set cloudflare dns resolvers in your *arr stack then certain things might stop working (e.g. blocked indexers). I just switched my system to another DNS service because of this.

[-] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

What'd you switch to I usually just go w cloudflare

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

I switched to Quad9 since I like how they fought and finally won on appeal the Sony lawsuit (see https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-wins-pirate-site-blocking-appeal-against-sony-231208/)

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Wait Quad9 won against Sony in the end?? I wasn't aware of that.

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but they are facing the same crap in Italy and now France too. Because they lost in Germany, now copyright holders are taking legal action in different jurisdictions in the hope of getting a more favourable ruling (to them). My concern is that over time it'll be harder and harder to find a DNS provider that'll correctly resolve piracy-related sites.

https://www.quad9.net/news/press/quad9-faces-new-dns-censorship-legal-challenge-in-france-from-canal