“The court stressed that, even though an intermediary may act passively and neutrally, it can still be an essential link in transferring infringing data.”
Canal+ walked out of a Paris court with 14 blocking orders covering 47 Premier League domains and 26 for the Champions League. The targets are ISPs, Google and Cloudflare DNS, Proton VPN, ExpressVPN, Bing and the CDNs. The court’s reasoning is that being a neutral pipe makes you an essential link, which is a theory with no obvious floor. France is also automating the list so ARCOM can add domains mid-broadcast without a human checking first. The EU study published yesterday asked for this. The court had already granted it in July.