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.
Specify the country in the damn headline.
Wouldn’t DNSSEC makes the whole poisoning moot?
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.
Wonder how long it will take all these rights groups, trying to weaponize badness enumeration, to realize what a horribly ineffective strategy it is.
they don’t care whether it’s effective
Using piracy as an excuse to exert control over the means of domain resolution.
I hate to side with big tech, but they’re not wrong… DNS poisoning is ineffective when pirate sites can just change domains, and users can just change DNS provider or use a VPN. It’s a cat and mouse race that’ll be ultimately impossible to win
Canal+ could choose the blocking measures it deemed appropriate and the existence of alternative solutions is irrelevant, the court said.
Ah yes, please take action. It is irrelevant that action has no effect.
Quad9 still works right?
For now… Any legal entity can be forced to do this though if court sides with theese parasites.
It won’t kill piracy, it willake it more decentralized
