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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users
Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.
Cloudflare notes that it may take steps to comply with valid orders if, among other things, “principles relating to proportionality, due process, and transparency” are upheld. With no central repository of blocking orders and no legal requirement to share details of injunctions with the public, transparency in the UK is mostly left to chance. However, from experience we know that the request was made by the studios of the Motion Picture Association and for the same reason the High Court in London was the issuing authority.
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