Court Expands Google and Cloudflare DNS Blocking to Combat Piracy * TorrentFreak
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A controversial order that required Cisco, Cloudflare, and Google to poison DNS was just the start. Broadcaster Canal+ soon returned for more.

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.

    • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      In general DNS poisoning is not a very effective measure as these companies point out in the article.

      There are simpler ways to block access, they noted, pointing out that the measures would not be effective because users could use VPNs or other DNS resolvers to bypass the blocks.