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Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨moe90@feddit.nl⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflare-cracks-down-on-uk-piracy-and-vpn-users-are-getting-caught-in-the-crossfire

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  • natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The title here is misleading.

    Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.

    “Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.

    We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.

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  • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    VPNs will help. The article is only talking about VPN servers based in a location with a geo ban, which, duh. But if you actually use your VPN to be in a different country and not just a different city it’ll work fine.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’d say that the title here is clickbait. The author is working awfully hard to try to frame the issue in the article in such a way that they can write that title.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The editorialized title makes it sound like they made a decision and it wasn’t because of a court order.

    Actual article title: “Cloudflare cracks down on UK piracy – and VPN users are getting caught in the crossfire”

    Not much better, but it is better than the OP’s title.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Usually Cloudflare fights (successfully) against the orders, laying the responsibility with ISPs. This marks a change in corporate policy.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        they don’t just whimsically decide on a daily basis whether or not to comply with court orders. something changed legally that caused them to take action.

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      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That assumes they didn’t fight and lose this time.

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