Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France
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- French courts have ordered intermediaries including Cloudflare to block access to pirate sports streams, targeting DNS resolvers, VPNs, and CDNs.
- Cloudflare was ordered to block 21 domains for Formula 1 and 16 for MotoGP, but implemented blocking only through its CDN service.
- Canal+ requested daily penalties of €50,000 per site, alleging Cloudflare's CDN-only blocking was insufficient and circumvented the orders.
- The Paris court sided with Cloudflare, ruling that the company took reasonable measures and could not be held responsible for sites switching CDNs or using mirror sites.
- Cloudflare's public DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) remains free of blocking, consistent with its policy, while Canal+ may appeal the decision.