The Canal+ group is taking three American tech giants to court: Google, Cloudflare and Cisco. It calls on companies to block illegal sports streaming sites.
There will be sport, but the field will not be what you imagine. The match will take place in a court, and it will pit one team against 3 others. THE Canal+ group has in fact taken to court three American tech giants: Google, Cloudflare And Cisco. In question: the illegal streaming of sports matches, him again. This phenomenon is not only very well known, but it is also experiencing strong growth in European countries. A scourge for rights holders who try by all means to contain it. The Premier League, the English football championship, is strengthening its internal anti-piracy teams, for example.
Originally, Canal+ asked the French Internet Service Providers of block several pirate sites. The latter carried out last September: they cut off their access to all subscribers until the end of the various championships for which Canal+ has the audiovisual exploitation rights. THE Top 14 rugbythere Champions League and the Premier League of football. The problem is thatthere is an extremely simple trick to bypass the blockage. In fact, it is enough to change your DNS to no longer use those of ISPs. Thousands of tutorials explain how to do it.
Canal+ wants Google, Cloudflare and Cisco to block illegal sports streaming sites
Canal+ therefore attacks the three biggest alternative DNS providers which are Google, Cloudflare and Cisco. The group bases its approach onarticle 330-10 paragraph 1 of the Sports Code. It allows rights holders of sports competitions to ask the judge for “all proportionate measures” to prevent or stop an attack on their interests “against any person likely to contribute to remedying it”.
The request is clear. If Internet users turn to the 3 companies to continue consulting illegal streaming sites, it’s up to them to block them. Some people point out that there are many other DNS providers. Even if Canal+ gets what it wants, the measure would remain largely ineffective in their eyes. In France, more than 50 pirate sites were blocked by ISPs at the start of 2023.
Source: L’Informed