Quad9 Blocks Pirate Site Globally After Sony Demanded €10,000 Fine * TorrentFreak
Quad9 Blocks Pirate Site Globally After Sony Demanded €10,000 Fine * TorrentFreak
Following another setback in its legal dispute with Sony Music, Quad9 has decided to block pirate site Canna worldwide.
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Only quad9? Why not google or cloudflare, the bigger dns servers?
They're a non-profit IIRC, so no money to battle Sony in court
Yup, they are trying to establish easy precedence. Quad9 has not enough funds to battle the suit, even tough they are probably the least guilty party.
Targeting DNS services is an interesting strategy, but if you know how the technology works it's also a silly one. Attacking those who only translate your request to access a site hosting copy righted content instead of the operator or host... or users for that matter.
If you know how to configure your dns to point to quad9, you can easily change to another one. Shame Sony.
but if you know how the technology works
That's like what, 2% of online users globally? Let's say pirates are marginally more tech savvy, so maybe 10% of pirates? If their plan works and they can get google to block access to all sorts of streaming and torrenting sites, that will massively reduce the numbers of people accessing illegal content.
https://www.lumendatabase.org/
Targeting DNS and killing traffic to an entire site is easier than the constant drumbeat of sending out takedowns for specific links to everyone. Way pver the top, and pf course they wouldn't try it against a big opponent. Would love to see them make a case that YouTube should be globally DNS blocked, after all look at all the infringing videos and music that's on there daily.