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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    10 hours ago

    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.

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    10 hours ago

    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.

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    13 hours ago

    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).

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    1 day ago

    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?

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        14 hours ago

        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.

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          11 hours ago

          BS solution that doesnt apply to the problem.
          Problem: The DNS doesnt resolve the domain anymore so https://www.foo.bar/ resolves to 0.0.0.0
          Solution: Change domain or directly connect via the IP.
          Problem 2: What’s the IP if you can’t resolve it first. There aint telephone books anymore.

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            10 hours ago

            Solution: while not dns block, write down domain + ip in /etc/hosts.

            There aint telephone books anymore.

            What is megathread then? Put ip there, then do /etc/hosts solution.

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              8 hours ago

              I am thinking more about a general “phone book” and not a specialized section in the yellow pages.
              Amd connecting to google via IP is not possible. Same for other companies and organizations that utilize obfuscation of the actual servers like reverse proxies and load-balancers.