Andre FrancaI keep seeing governments treat DNS resolvers like censorship tools. Obviously, they’re not meant to be.
Blocking at the DNS level is imprecise and doesn’t remove bad actors. It’s like trying to fix a leaky faucet with a sledgehammer.
Now they're going even further, pressuring CDNs like cloudflare to block access to piracy or malicious content. But here's the catch: CDNs serve thousands of sites from shared infrastructure. One misfire, and you can literally break half the web.
Just looking at what happened in Spain with La Liga is a perfect example of how not to fight piracy. To block access to illegal streams of soccer matches, La Liga pushed for CDN-level blocking.
Instead of just stopping shady streams, the blocks affected entire domains. Legit websites went offline. Entire CDNs were caught in the crossfire, news outlets, small businesses, hobby sites. All because they happened to sit on the same servers/ips as of flagged URLs.
For instance, none of them are discussing reducing ticket fees, so normal people can take their family to a stadium, or even streaming subscription costs. It's a shame.