The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed that third-party DNS providers can be legally compelled to block access to domain names to stop piracy. The DNS providers countered that such measures are technically burdensome and easily bypassed. However, the court ruled that the intermediaries must act nonetheless and pick up the bill themselves. This is a clear win for Canal+, which pioneered the blocking expansion.
This is an amazingly stupid court decision.
Amazingly stupid it may be, but it is also a typical decision. This is how copyright rolls in Europe.
Over the last few years, the media has managed to create this narrative where a few US companies make billions by violating the rights of Europeans and stealing their data. This case was US companies against European data owners. Social media is full of
peopleaccounts calling for more law enforcement to fight back. Well, here you go.
This is absurd. They know we can go all the way to the root servers, don’t they?
So you know where this is going.
