French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight

French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9 says that it's determined to appeal what it sees as an absurd application of copyright law. For now, however, it will block the targeted domain names globally.

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French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight * TorrentFreak

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@Joker Do we need to start running our own DNS servers?
- Yesterday.
- I already can’t do half the things I’m trying to do on my network, now I gotta figure out DNS?!?
  
  Nah it’s not really hard. Look at unbound. If you have pihole already, adding unbound is really very easy.
- Already am.
  
  Can you elaborate on this a bit? I’m currently running pihole. But mostly because I had a spare raspberry pi.
  But it uses quad 9 for dns records. How do you establish your own dns that does not rely on other providers?
- Can't you use adguard dns?
  
  Technitium is really nice too
- Well, there's the ALFIS project
Block the French government. Done.
- It has been blocked and will be blocked again soon.
Time to change to ipv6 ip that not change? Then dns not necessary, not even domain registrar.
What even different to go after domain registrar? If domain unregistered, same result as block on all dns globally?
- Huh? Dns and ipv4 are two different things. You're probably thinking of NAT.
  
  There so many ipv6 adress no need to change. Dns for get ip from hostname and update ip if change.
  Ipv4 not enough adress, so always change, not need with ipv6.
Canal has always been a terrible company from as far as I can remember. They had the best programs sure but their ultra-capitalist methods, the fact they were always involved with whatever scandal/corporate abuse and at the time the only channel you had to pay for always turned me off. Especially since France had great public TV and other private channels available for free.
Ah, that's annoying. I've had to switch from Real Debrid (turns out RD was run by cunts anyways, so good riddance) and now Quad9. Sucks, they had better response times than most DNS I tested.
- dns0
  
  dns0.eu is a French non‑profit organization
  If this whole topic is about enforcing french block lists , I don't think a French org is that good of an alternative. Not that it necessarily makes it a bad alternative right now.
  /edit: Changed wording from French companies to french block lists
- What's the story with Real Debrid?
  
  Owners acted very childish when people understandably sought out refunds, basically. Refusal to refund, acting as if they never supported piracy and it's all our fault, threats about giving french gov logs, stuff like that.
Does this explain why torrentgalaxy has been unreachable for a couple days on my end? Hope they ain't on the domain list and that I don't have to change DNS (due to laziness over everything else).
I think this is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened to quad9 and the 2nd successful time (they also were forced to poison their DNS by the Italian government).

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