The Paris Judicial Court has ordered top VPN providers to block yet more pirate sports streaming domains. Two rulings dated July 18th side with broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal+, rejecting the VPN providers’ arguments that these blocking measures are ineffective, costly, and technically difficult to implement. A request from CyberGhost and ExpressVPN, to pause the case and refer questions to the EU’s highest court, was also rejected.

  • refalo@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    Why are they only being ordered to block DNS requests and not an entire ASN or IP ranges?

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      4 months ago

      Probably because they’re not smart enough. Don’t give them any ideas.