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Posted by farrokhi 22 hours ago

Quad9 to exit France(quad9.net)
1253 points | 420 commentspage 8
akung8x8 18 hours ago|
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Onavo 21 hours ago||
Another user commented on

> €580,000 to €1,000 per day. But deleted his/her comment.

To put this into perspective, €365K a year is roughly the fully loaded total comp cost of a high-senior to low staff level software engineer or a mid level ML engineer at a frontier lab in Cali.

jubilanti 21 hours ago||
Per each infraction. They said they currently have 20 other cases pending. And who knows how many would be to come.
HackerThemAll 18 hours ago||
What exactly are you trying to convey here? That this penalty is not an issue? Would you be willing to pay it from your pocket then? Quad9 is not Cloudflare nor Google. It's a nonprofit, in case you blinked right at the sentence that mentioned this.
Scaled 18 hours ago|
I'm disappointed in how many pro-piracy comments are in this thread. Free speech does not mean you have the right to steal someone else's labor unencumbered. When actual free speech is blocked, then I'll be among the people rallying -- but blocking a piracy site is blocking cybercrime not legal free speech.
Grombobulous 11 hours ago|
I think the sympathies to this story would change a lot if Quad9 was refusing to block DNS resolution to websites for other illegal organizations like human trafficking rings, cartels, gangs, etc.

Copyright infringement isn’t exactly a violent crime but it is very clearly a crime.

What I don’t think Quad9 realizes is that being neutral from a technical and architectural basis is meaningless in law and doesn’t reflect your intent. If you have awareness and means to make a change that mitigates harm and you refuse, that’s how you lose cases.

I think it can be very easily argued by a lawyer that Quad9 intended to keep the infringing content easily available and at best minimally comply.