“We will block Cloudflare as they protect piracy sites and must be shut down!!!” - Austrian copyright court, clueless
Can someone elaborate, i dont get it
It’s in the first paragraph.
In 2022, rightsholders obtained permission in Austria to block several pirate site domains and a list of IP addresses that actually belonged to Cloudflare. ISPs had no choice but to comply with the court’s instructions which took out countless Cloudflare customers in Austria. According to reviews conducted by local telecoms regulator TKK, the IP address blocking violated net neutrality regulations and will no longer be allowed.
In other words, only domain blocking will be allowed, IP blocking will not be permitted, and cloudflare IPs must be unblocked again.
Cloudlare has become too big to fail. If the IP addresses belong to a smaller proxy company, no one would even bat an eye.
I don’t see the need to vilify Cloudflare. So far, they have shown nothing but respect towards net neutrality, fighting against bad internet practices (like Google), and even standing up to ISPs and governments to protect their users, whether they’re pirates or not.
They have been around long enough (10+ years) to let you judge them and their services through their actions, not rumours.
I’m sorry, I’m also not getting this. My understanding is that they cannot block the sites. But it looks like are doing it. I find it a little confusing.
They are no longer allowed to block servers based on IP addresses. (1 server with 1 IP address can host countless domains)
But domain based blocking (likepiratedmovieas.com) is still allowed.
I wonder if we’ll ever see people who know what they’re doing legislate this stuff. This is just pathetic. They couldn’t even hit the right target.
Kinda based. Fuck cloudflare basically monopolizing internet access.
Did anyone even bother to check out the article? Cloudflare is being allowed again since the ban broke the rules of net neutrality… It’s the IP blocking methods that are being outlawed.
