Comment by JoshTriplett
9 months ago
Cloudflare isn't in a position to accept or decline LaLiga's requests; LaLiga, supported by a ridiculous court order, is forcing ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses.
9 months ago
Cloudflare isn't in a position to accept or decline LaLiga's requests; LaLiga, supported by a ridiculous court order, is forcing ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses.
Cloudflare absolutely is in a position to take down domains they're hosting on those IPs while keeping other domains sharing the same IP up.
I think that's probably what they'll be doing in the end, so it's interesting to observe that they haven't done so already. Do they maybe have at least an internal domain reputation system so that long-time customers mostly share IPs with other long-time customers and are less likely to get caught in the crossfire?
> Cloudflare absolutely is in a position to take down domains they're hosting on those IPs while keeping other domains sharing the same IP up.
They could. On the other hand, why should they? I would much rather see them fight this court order and make it stop across the board.
Cloudflare's customers are distributing copyrighted material. That's basic copyright law, and the host and distributor can easily take it offline after a court request.
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Ok, this explains why Cloudflare is doing this. So the issue seems to be with the court order then. Is this then yet another case of court order makers not understanding the technological consequences of the court order they made?
Or more likely not caring, or not being informed because the plaintiff doesn't care about collateral damage.