An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+'s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. [...] As a result, Cloudflare will not be penalized under these orders, even though its public DNS resolver is not blocking the sites in question. That is in line with the company's long-standing claim that it doesn't interfere with its DNS.

In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn't blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. "To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver," the company's latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.

Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.

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Finasteride is een steeds gewilder middel tegen kaalheid. Maar sommige gebruikers ondervinden mentale en/of seksuele problemen die niet verdwijnen als ze met het middel zijn gestopt. „We hebben letterlijk allemaal dezelfde symptomen.”

De oprichting van Modura leek een uitkomst voor cliënten van bewindvoerders die moeilijk een bankrekening kunnen krijgen. De Raad voor de rechtspraak keurde deze ‘bewindvoerdersbank’ goed. Maar de constructie is onnavolgbaar en de rechtspositie van de cliënten zwak.

Men found inside RAF Molesworth, used by US and Nato for intelligence, freed on strict conditions as police continue investigation

Two Latvian men have been released on bail after being arrested at an RAF base in Cambridgeshire used by the US military and Nato.

The two men, aged 32 and 26, were arrested at 2am on Thursday after they were discovered inside RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, which is used by the US military and Nato for intelligence operations.

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Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production

The true-life success story of boxer Ramla Ali is confidently told in this capable picture from screenwriter Ursula Rani Sarma and documentary director Anthony Wonke, in his feature-film debut. Ali is the British-Somali boxer who escaped to the UK from the Somali civil war with her family as a refugee, and in 2021 became the first person to box for Somalia at Olympic Games. The boxing significance of her last name is actually not mentioned in the film – and I never noticed it until it flashed up in a kind of “fight card” intertitle before her first competitive bout.

She is fiercely played by Jasmine Jobson, from TV’s Top Boy; her supportive white Muslim-convert husband Richard – a hugely important figure in enabling Ramla to break away from her disapproving family and do as she wants – is played by Finn Cole, and her abusive trainer Clinton is Gershwyn Eustache Jr. This is a film that takes you through the classic boxing-movie scenes fluently enough: the nervous first appearance in the gym, the overbearing quasi-parental coach, the heartstopping fight debut. It was good to see the traditional closeup of post-fight sore fists in the ice-bucket. All in all, the film works better than Giant, the recent biopic of British-Yemeni boxer Prince Naseem, who is in fact briefly mentioned here.

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At long last, the game you think you know, has become the game you have been waiting for: AAA Minesweeper. Put your headphones on and get ready for the ride.

Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari ball. You can even roll up KDO. This is too much fun. See also Destroy Any Website.

De Aziatische hoornaar is een ecologische ramp, zegt imker Willem Schaaij uit Rotterdam. "De bijen worden massaal afgeslacht. Met mooi weer pakken ze er 400 per dag." En de overheid doet volgens Schaaij veel te weinig tegen deze wespensoort. De imker probeert de beesten nu zelf tegen te houden met vallen.

En toen kwam de realisatie dat Hitler Mussolini wél een democratisch GEKOZEN burgemeester is (in Queropalca, Peru), en dat Alexander Pechtold zich als exponent van de baantjescarrousel en onderdeel van de bestuurlijke elite via een paar geheime achterkamersessies met een 'vertrouwenscommissie' naar het pluche heeft genetwerkt. Met andere woorden: als we mochten kiezen (maar dat mogen we in NL niet) tussen Alexander Pechtold en Hitler Mussolini, dan gingen we altijd voor Hitler Mussolini. Poll na de klik.

Ahora Nación = een soort PvdA voordat het woke werd