GoKawiilParis court rejects Canal+ bid to fine Cloudflare over 1.1.1.1 piracy blocking
A Paris Judicial Court has sided with Cloudflare in a dispute with French broadcaster Canal+, rejecting a request for 50,000-euro-per-day penalties over the company's refusal to block pirate sports streams through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. Cloudflare continues to block such sites only through its CDN service, geoblocking 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025 under a single court order, while leaving its DNS resolver untouched.
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The ruling reinforces Cloudflare's stance, shared with the European Commission, that global public DNS resolvers should not be tools for content blocking, which could influence how other courts and regulators treat similar requests. It also highlights Cloudflare's alternative approach to piracy enforcement, a real-time stream-flagging system for rightsholders, as a potential model other infrastructure providers might point to when resisting DNS-level blocking demands.
- Paris court denied Canal+'s request for daily penalties against Cloudflare over DNS blocking
- Cloudflare blocks pirate sites via its CDN but maintains it never blocks through 1.1.1.1 DNS
- Cloudflare has urged the EU to discourage using public DNS resolvers for content restriction
Source: yro.slashdot.org, 2026-10-09
Published there as: “Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France”
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