Pirate site blocking challenged by DNS resolver

Date:
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:00:45 +0000

Description:
DNS resolver Quad9 has submitted an appeal regarding the decision of German ISPs to voluntarily block pirate sites.

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After Germany's largest internet providers agreed to voluntarily block pirate sites earlier this year, the DNS resolver Quad9 has now appealed the blocking order from the Hamburg District Court.

As reported by TorrentFreak , these blockades are implemented at the DNS
level though DNS blocking is easy to circumvent by switching to Cloudflare, OpenDNS , Quad9 or another DNS resolver not used by one's ISP.

Since this workaround is widely known by copyright holders, Sony Music obtained an injunction that requires Quad9 to block a popular pirate site. We've put together a list of the best VPN services available These are the best proxy services on the market Also check out our roundup of the best anonymous browser

While the targeted site was not named in the injunction issued by the
District Court of Hamburg, it's likely Canna.to is the site as it is already part of the German internet providers' voluntary blocking agreement. Quad9's appeal

The non-profit Quad9 foundation recently submitted an appeal to the District Court of Hamburg with the aim of hoping to overturn the blocking
requirements.

Although the foundation does not condone piracy , it believes that using third-party intermediaries to block users from accessing online content is a step too far. At the same time, Quad9 argues that Sony Music could track down the site operator, go after its web hosting provider or approach its domain registrar instead.

In a blog post announcing its appeal, Quad9 explained that browsers , antivirus software , firewalls and even VPN services could be targeted next, saying:

This case is not just relevant for DNS recursive resolvers and their users any service or software that can inspect and influence any part of an
internet transaction between and end user and any content origin should be concerned with the result. Web browsers, anti-virus software, firewalls, spam filters, email clients, VPN providers, and many other intermediate software and infrastructure components too numerous to list are implicated as
potential next targets, as their positions look extremely similar to that of recursive DNS providers in information flow diagrams.

We'll have to wait and see if Quad9 is granted its appeal but in the
meantime, the DNS resolver has implemented a temporary hack to comply with
the order that allows it to limit the blocking measures to German IP
addresses . We've also highlighted the best business VPN

Via TorrentFreak



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