France is really taking the piss lately.

I’m late in learning this but last year the French courts ruled in favour of some French media company and issued orders to the major DNS operators to block access to some piracy sites.

Cisco who run OpenDNS (did you know that? I didn’t. Ew. They bought OpenDNS in 2015 for over $600 million in cash) opted to block connections from France.

Google and Cloudflare, presumably, complied in blocking access to the listed sites when the DNS queries originate in France. No expectation of privacy from them anyway so meh.

Quad9 had to apply the French block list to the whole world because (apparently) the same Swiss law that protects their users from IP logging would also protect them from being geo located to apply the block list. So rather than leave France, Quad9 blocked the required list of sites from all users of their DNS. They said they’d appeal it but I dunno how far that’s gone, probably not very.

https://quad9.net/news/press/quad9-faces-new-dns-censorship-legal-challenge-in-france-from-canal/

https://torrentfreak.com/french-piracy-blocking-order-goes-global-dns-service-quad9-vows-to-fight-241212/

also lol dns level blocking to stop piracy

Thanks for the list of trackers and streaming sites tho, Canal+

Edit: ewww it’s all just sports streaming sites. All this for sports.