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Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France(torrentfreak.com)
7 points by gslin 11 hours ago | 1 comments
Imustaskforhelp 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Damn, Not really the most user-privacy caring decision taking by the french courts here. It might put user privacy in geopardy.

Technically someone can run their own DNS servers who can be hosted on DMCA ignored lands (Moldova,Maybe China) but this feels like a net negative for the privacy. Beyond that, the most effective things become VPN for the end user but I wonder if blocking law might extend to VPN as well. The judgement from this certainly makes me feel a bit off-putting for VPN's.

It's very rare to see these companies fight for the good of the consumer (well technically they did it only because they wanted to save man-power/money but even then, it was pro user-privacy) and this has now been shut down :-/