Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

Want to know what I used to pirate, but don't anymore? Video games. Steam makes tons of money off of me and everybody else and has reasonable DRM with an easy to use store.

Piracy is a delivery problem. Make content easier to get for reasonable prices and you'll make money. Don't do that? OK. Piracy it is.

Oh no! The poor multi-billion dollar football leagues are losing out on pennies from people who cant afford extortionate subscription services! Quick, take legal action!

Piracy is a service problem.

wow lets poison DNS, surely no one will start linking these piracy sites via ip addresses or create alternative domain names. wcgw.

It isn’t like I’m not willing to pay. My NAS setup wasn’t exactly cheap. But the user experience is just incredible. I had Netflix for ten years, and several others for some time. The experience is just better. Watching whatever I want synchronized with my wife across devices of any type is superb. Who else offers that?

This is a dumb game of whackamole that they’ll never win.

If you’re affected just switch your dns to Quad9 or something.

Quad9 is a great thing to learn about right about now.

This is such a stupid non solution to their problem.

I feel like anyone who already had a know-how to change their DNS will just change to one of the other hundreds of free servers and the people who couldn't be bothered to switch to google DNS will already have been "blocked". Or they are using a VPN already..

use your powers for good and poison dns to stop russian disinformation

So they'll just change their DNS server again? What will this achieve?

Is there such a thing as federated dns servers, self hosted or otherwise? I don't particularly care about piracy but I can see this dominoing into abortion, lgtq+ ect...ect...

How about just firewall France and discover if legislators find cause to pass new laws.

How is that even legal?

Around 800 Frenchies affected. Imagine the money both companies wasted on lawyers on this and how many of those 800 will be forced to pay now instead of finding another dns server...

Talk about an impotent response. Pretty simple way around that.

Even the most casual of internet users will see the guide on how to change their DNS server bruh.

Next they'll do DNS injection even though DoT and DNS over HTTPS is a thing.

seems to be only in france rn?