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17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist


A 17-year-old student has launched a dedicated portal to exposing Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist to the public.

This can apply to torrent sites, streaming portals, and direct download hubs, as long as piracy is front and center. After sifting through the data and running domains though extensive DNS resolver tests, Damian launched CUIIliste.de, effectively lifting the blocking veil by exposing all URLs without redactions. While it’s understandable that CUII doesn’t want to offer a portal with clickable hyperlinks to pirate sites, keeping the URLs secret is far from ideal.

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