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> From: Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> > To: Richard Forno <[email protected]> > Cc: infowarrior list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [iw] - Fwd: Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against > DNS-Resolver Quad9 > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:12:53 +0200 > >>> The Quad9 foundation has already announced that it will protest the >>> judgment, which could have far-reaching consequences. > > Which, of course, is expensive, since Sony very much wish to hold on to this > precedent they’ve established. Ordinarily I’d say not our monkeys, not our > circus, since we’re here to do cybersecurity and privacy and the whole > copyright dumptsterfire isn’t our fight; but they dumped it on our doorstep > unprovoked, it’s utterly ridiculous, and now we’re the only ones with > standing to overturn it. > > Eco, the German Internet association, are helping with the legal defense > fund, we’ve begun talking with the EFF and the Digital Freedom Fund, and > individual donations are up 900% over last week, but if any of you know > anybody who’d be willing to help cover the costs of overturning this, we can > use all the help we can get. The precedent they’ve just established is that > any uninvolved third party can be made liable for their full claimed damages > and legal expenses, because they theoretically could have taken some action > to try to prevent the copyright infringement, even if there was no chance of > it actually preventing the infringement, and regardless of the cost of that > action. Which, yes, is ridiculous, but that’s what the court found for them. > Which is why they chose that court, and why this is an uphill battle, since > it has to be contested in that same court before it can be appealed upwards. > > -Bill -- Iw mailing list [email protected] http://sticklist.org/mailman/listinfo/iw_sticklist.org
