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.
they are nothing more than Cloudflare complying with its legal obligations under the DMCA
Not really news, then, is it?
Everyone loves to hate on Cloudflare, but uh, duh, of course a US company will comply with a request under US law that they have to comply with?
If you don’t want your shit DMCAed, don’t use anything based in the US to provide it.
Go host somewhere that doesn’t have smiliar laws and won’t comply with foreign requests.
which is a big reason why most long lasting pirate sites are hosted in russia
What would be the most cost efficient of making them collapse as a corporation?
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.
Just hope is not an excuse to do a full ban on piracy in future. Do you know some alternative DNS service?
What’d you switch to I usually just go w cloudflare
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/)
Wait Quad9 won against Sony in the end?? I wasn’t aware of that.
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
Cloudfare is cancer
