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Farewell, France (quad9.net)
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Starting November 24, Quad9 will no longer be able to offer its free cyberprotection service to users located in France.

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[-] myrmidex@belgae.social 62 points 6 days ago

beIN, a Qatari company with offices in France, previously sought to force Quad9 to block resolution for a set of domain names they assert are participating in copyright infringement of its audiovisual rights on sports event broadcasts. Quad9 has no association with these domain names, nor with the operators of the websites. The French courts have fundamentally misunderstood the working of the internet and the role of the domain name system and have allowed a financial penalty to apply to Quad9 if we do not block DNS responses to users in France.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Does Q9 even have a presence in France? How would they enforce this fine?

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