DNS Poisoning

[Infrasonic]

https://torrentfreak.com/google-cloudfl ... on-240613/

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers to prevent circumvention of blocking measures, targeting around 117 pirate sports streaming domains. The move is another anti-piracy escalation for broadcaster Canal+, which also has permission to completely deindex the sites from search engine results...

Cont.

[stewamax]

NordVPN, Surfshark et al will be dancing in the streets.

[Infrasonic]

NordVPN, Surfshark et al will be dancing in the streets.

It depends...

All the big content creators/IP owners around the world will be looking at this judgement gleefully and seeing if they can get a similar result elsewhere - if they do then it will end up being a domino whack a mole game and that will potentially affect VPN's as much as anyone else handling DNS...

I've got Proton VPN and Switzerland has pretty strong privacy laws - so fingers crossed.

[UncleEbenezer]

Hard to believe they simply publish a list of sites like that. They must surely know how easy it is to set up a new site and share it on social media. Or they could share Host file fragments that simply override DNS, poisoned or otherwise, for their sites. Or publish IP addresses for servers in countries that permit it. Or ...

If this becomes widespread, expect different focuses from different countries. But at least the slippery slope isn't new: the likes of the IWF have been doing it for years.