Comment by sofixa
1 year ago
> It's censoring DNS. That's a bad precedent
France uses a sane legal system based on civil law, so precedents rarely matter. In this case the Sports Code says that piracy is bad and operators can be requested to block piracy websites if they're used and "harm" rights holders. That doesn't mean that tomorrow in a random case not related to sports piracy a judge can refer to that law and order censoring of other DNS entries.
Precedents aren't just in courts. People see something being done and then they want to do it too. If the law requires this then people who want to build systems that make it impossible would be in violation, which deters those systems from being built for the people who really need them.