I always assumed businesses such as Cloudfare or Google would have a good reason to be the main IPFS or tor node hosts, since that can help improve the backbone infrastructure for this side of of the internet, and can also help catch bad actors if there are any there (easily turn in all logs to three letter agencies if they knock, or they can simply offer it up for anon tips).
IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
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#12> According to reviews conducted by local telecoms regulator TKK, the IP address blocking violated net neutrality regulations and will no longer be allowed. Thank god for net neutrality. We of course have that here in America right? Cus freedom!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/technology/montana-net-ne...
https://www.multistate.us/insider/2018/1/24/montana-leads-st...
Montana's had it since 2018, which was a first:
> Montana Governor Steve Bullock (D) signed an executive order requiring internet service providers (ISPs) with state contracts to adhere to “net neutrality.” The state became the first to enact such measures in response to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality rules last December.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#13Why can't they discover the IP addresses of the backend and block those?
It wouldn't work very well, but then they won't ask again next time.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#14> When the ISPs discovered that the IP addresses belonged to Cloudflare, arms were thrown up in despair. The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof. I am getting tired of our politics here in europe: tech literate people in governments are put to work on surveilance stuff, never for actual policymaking. The shit show continues.
The ISPs didn't discover this, they knew. But it was mandated so they had to do it.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#15Why can't they discover the IP addresses of the backend and block those? It wouldn't work very well, but then they won't ask again next time.
They could, but they'd need to take CloudFlare to court or similar to force them to disclose that information. Or drop them as a customer.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#16Looks like my job. The best way to change stupid procedures is following them to the letter and watch the world burn.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#17> When the ISPs discovered that the IP addresses belonged to Cloudflare, arms were thrown up in despair. The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof. I am getting tired of our politics here in europe: tech literate people in governments are put to work on surveilance stuff, never for actual policymaking. The shit show continues.
>The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof. If I was an engineer there I would block the addresses and call it a day. What do I care? After all it's customer service who will deal with the angry calls.
Fortunately they didn't do that and instead got this in front of regulators.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#18Why can't they discover the IP addresses of the backend and block those? It wouldn't work very well, but then they won't ask again next time.
That wouldn't do anything, since CF's CDN connects to the backends directly.
As such, any CF server not within the nation in question would effectively be a circumvention tool.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#19> When the ISPs discovered that the IP addresses belonged to Cloudflare, arms were thrown up in despair. The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof. I am getting tired of our politics here in europe: tech literate people in governments are put to work on surveilance stuff, never for actual policymaking. The shit show continues.
>The level of desperation the ISP’s engineers have felt in front of such incompetence must have been through the roof. If I was an engineer there I would block the addresses and call it a day. What do I care? After all it's customer service who will deal with the angry calls.
Obviously your boss or boss's boss would care.
Re: IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
#20The EU engineers should just say "we followed the lead of Musk's X and we've taken the liberty of removing the IP/DNS blocking features from our network equipment. Sorry!"