Maybe i missed it in the post, but how are they going to implement it? They mentioned geoIP is insufficient for complying with the block, so if they dont have a way to block only these domains for users in France, how will they block all requests for users in France?

To be clear I dont think they should comply with the block, but i didn't grasp how they're going to block everything if they dont have a way to only block some things.

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eloisant 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're removing all presence they have in France, their servers mostly.

They want to be out of reach of French courts basically.

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keoneflick 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you think they will geoblock in addition to physically leaving?

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punchmesan 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably. They will want to do everything possible to be able to prove that they took all measures at their disposal to stop serving the French market on top of taking all measures to have their business operations be outside of French jurisdiction.

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LoganDark 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Then Sony (or whoever) will simply use a VPN to bypass the block...

Though I guess if they stop operating in France entirely, there will simply be nothing left to sue, even if the company still exists elsewhere.

	▲	bwoodcock 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unfortunately France is also a Lugano signatory, so we'll have to eventually prevail in France as well as Germany, and that will be a long and expensive project.
	▲	Narishma 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		beIN, not Sony.
	▲	duped 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		beIN also sued the VPNs

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johnhtodd 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reply in separate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200111

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OptOutDesk 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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disiplus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You stop serving anything for french ips. Its like you dont exist.

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hk__2 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"french ips" don’t mean anything as the post said; see their case in Germany.

	▲	disiplus 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		no, its different, in german case they served germany as a whole but for queries that where supposed to be blocked in germany they did not serve those to germans. so you operated in germany and your "tricky" way to follow the regulations did not work. if you dont resolve to german customers at all, like you dont exist then nobody can theoretically say you are operating in german. so that is the difference for me.

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djha-skin 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...That's just geoIP blocking, which he covered in his comment.

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disiplus 3 hours ago | parent [-]

no its not, one is you dont resolve anything for the country and therefore dont operate in it, the other is you operate in the country and the block you implemented does not work for my customer. similar how a lot of the US pages blocked europeans from accessing because they did not want to follow the cookie laws.

	▲	einsteinx2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> one is you dont resolve anything for the country And the only way to do that is via GeoIP blocking…