Court Orders Google to Poison Public DNS to Prevent IPTV Piracy * TorrentFreak
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A decision handed down by the Court of Milan requires Google to poison public DNS records to block access to pirate sites.

Last December the Court of Milan ordered Cloudflare to block sites added to Italy’s Piracy Shield system. Cloudflare sees itself as a neutral intermediary but increasingly frustrated rightsholders say it should play a more active role by assisting their fight against piracy. A decision issued by the same court now requires Google to poison its Public DNS to prevent access to pirate sites. It was handed down on March 11 without Google being heard in the matter.

  • ExtremeDullardEnglish
    72·
    20 hours ago

    He who cares about privacy even a little bit and uses Google DNS servers doesn’t really care about privacy.

    • green@feddit.nlEnglish
      22·
      7 hours ago

      Google does not automatically mean bad. It is dangerous precedent to blanket ban and remove nuance.

      8.8.8.8 is an excellent service, and provides genuine privacy gains. The largest downside being that it is such a massive target for bad-faith and ignorant actors - like the Italian government.

      • ExtremeDullardEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        Google does not automatically mean bad

        Yes it does.

        Google does everything with an angle, and that angle is putting you under surveillance and collecting monetizable data on you.

        Google has (or had, maybe?) fantastic products. They’re truly great! The translator, the map, Youtube… But they’re great for exactly the purpose of luring you into using them, so they can abuse your privacy with them.

        Google products are trojan horses: they’re irresistible but their true purpose is nefarious.

    • HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      18 hours ago

      I know at least one person who said they use Googles DNS because it stopped them getting pissy letters from their ISP.

      Some people only care about privacy to the point were they don’t see the immediate consequences for their actions.

      • darkknight@discuss.onlineEnglish
        71·
        17 hours ago

        Lol what? I’d be curious to know the amount of dns queries required for an ISP to complain about this. I’d think it would have to be massive. Also, unless it’s in their TOS, they wouldn’t really have to comply. The only downside is if they’re the only ISP for the user, which sucks and happens.