I use 1.1.1.1 myself, if cloudflare follows this court order i doubt I'd ever notice.
Despite that, it's absolutely disgusting, and sets a bad precedent. What happens if China/Russia/The USA start demanding blocking of sites that they decide aren't in their own interests?
Part of me is hoping to see a pretty severe response to this from cloudflare, especially since cloudflare was very rational in their appeal and it was completely denied.
Regardless of how you feel about piracy, any kind of blocking should never be happening at the DNS level. From an eff.org article[0] about a similar case last year:
> This order is profoundly dangerous for several reasons. In the U.S. context, where injunctions like these are usually tied to specious claims of conspiracy, we have long argued that intermediaries which bear no meaningful relationship to the alleged infringement, and cannot therefore be held liable for it, should not be subject to orders like these in the first place. Courts do not have unlimited power; rather, judges should confine their orders to persons that are plausibly accused of infringement or acting in concert with infringers.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.6 ms ] threadDespite that, it's absolutely disgusting, and sets a bad precedent. What happens if China/Russia/The USA start demanding blocking of sites that they decide aren't in their own interests?
Part of me is hoping to see a pretty severe response to this from cloudflare, especially since cloudflare was very rational in their appeal and it was completely denied.
> This order is profoundly dangerous for several reasons. In the U.S. context, where injunctions like these are usually tied to specious claims of conspiracy, we have long argued that intermediaries which bear no meaningful relationship to the alleged infringement, and cannot therefore be held liable for it, should not be subject to orders like these in the first place. Courts do not have unlimited power; rather, judges should confine their orders to persons that are plausibly accused of infringement or acting in concert with infringers.
[0] https://www.eff.org/ja/deeplinks/2021/07/dns-provider-hit-ou...