myCANAL : tv, sports, séries, films en streaming en direct live ou replay… | Simon Forster

The letter I can’t write to Canal+: « Dear Canal+ Thank you for your undated legal summons which we received yesterday. Unfortunately, I cannot present myself in Paris tomorrow due to other commitments. Our 4 full time staff are busy too. I don’t think it’s appropriate to ask one of the five contractors working with us to present on our behalf, do you? Anyway, they’re busy as well. A service used by over 100 million users present in 259 locations across 239 cities in 130 countries doesn’t run itself. Quite frankly it amazes me that we manage as well as we do with the limited resources available to us. Your latest summons seems to demand blocking of websites you deem to be infringing upon your rights with respect to Formula 1, although my French is not the best, so I can’t be sure without getting a proper translation done. I assume Canal+ is looking to build on its previous success in the French courts? Although “success” seems an equivocal point as your last “success” saw OpenDNS pull their service from France. Once you’ve run all DNS providers out of France, are you going to set up your own recursive resolver service? “The answer’s Canal+, now what was the question?” Just think, all website traffic in France ending up on your web servers. That’s success. Are you going to be demanding that Sky Sports, ESPN, Sky DE, Sky Italia, DAZN, Movistar+, Fancode, TSN5, SBS, 9Go! be blocked by Quad9? While I appreciate that they hold the official broadcasting rights to Formula 1 in different geographies, if anyone accesses these services in France, they’re pirates, right? I’m sure that Italian viewers won’t mind missing their dose of Formula 1 because of a French ruling in a French court favouring a French company. While this unpleasantness is going on, would it be appropriate for us to decline to resolve queries for canalplus.com? I can’t find any contract stating that we must resolve canalplus.com, but as I’m new here, perhaps one exists in a drawer somewhere? Would you do me a grand favour and send a copy across? Our users may be inconvenienced by not being able to get to canalplus.com but the ones in sub-Saharan Africa and the poorer parts of Asia probably have better things to do than watch Formula 1 with French commentary. The users of Quad9’s services in France will need to make the decision as to whether being protected from phishing and malware attacks, free of charge, thanks to the generosity of the 30+ commercial threat intelligence providers donating their services, is worth the cost of not being able to get to canalplus.com. Anyway, I must get back to working out how we keep our little operation going. We’ve got annual expenditure of less than two million dollars, but we’re struggling to cover that. Not a problem Canal+ will be able to relate to what with a turnover of over €6 billion and a total of over 9,000 employees. Toodle pip. Simon » Quad9 DNS CANAL+ Group #DNS