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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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[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 56 points 5 days ago

There are more important reasons geoIP blocking will not work. We already prevailed in a similar legal case in Germany in 2021-2023 in which we learned an important lesson: we tried to use geoIP blocking as a “hack” in a similar circumstance at the start of the legal proceedings, allowing us to continue services in Germany until the case concluded. The plaintiff (Sony Music Entertainment GmbH) then used a VPN to access the blocked content from Germany in circumvention of the geoIP blocking. The court agreed with Sony in their assertions of noncompliance, and we were fined for contempt of court.

A very "fuck you" to Sony, once again, as well.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago

Sony uses a VPN to spoof its location outside of the geoIP blocking area, and then is surprised it can access a blocked site? WTF

Judge somehow does not see the distinction, or understand location spoofing at all.

[-] khornechips@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 days ago

So many judges, lawyers and even lawmakers have no idea how the technology that they’re legislating even works. It’s a major problem.

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