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“In an attempt to block 14 websites that copyright holders argued were violating copyright, the court-ordered IP block rendered thousands of websites inaccessible to ordinary Internet users in Austria over a two-day period.”

Alissa Starzak and Marwan Fayedblog.cloudflare.com ↗

An Austrian court ordered ISPs to block 11 IP addresses to stop 14 pirate sites. Thousands of legitimate sites went dark for two days. Nobody told Cloudflare. Rights holders get to aim a blunt instrument at shared infrastructure and nobody pays for the damage.