Blocking Unlawful Traffic
The EU initiative goes a step further though. While details are scarce at this early stage, the language in the official documentation suggests that “illegal content” could be blocked as well.
“Filtering of URLs leading to illegal content based on legal requirements applicable in the EU or in national jurisdictions (e.g. based on court orders), in full compliance with EU rules.”
The above suggests that pirate sites can be blocked by DNS4EU as well, if there’s an applicable court order. These sites will then be blocked for all users in the region. At the same time, it could also affect traffic that passes through the Internet backbones that use the DNS resolver.
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The EU initiative goes a step further though. While details are scarce at this early stage, the language in the official documentation suggests that “illegal content” could be blocked as well.
“Filtering of URLs leading to illegal content based on legal requirements applicable in the EU or in national jurisdictions (e.g. based on court orders), in full compliance with EU rules.”
The above suggests that pirate sites can be blocked by DNS4EU as well, if there’s an applicable court order. These sites will then be blocked for all users in the region. At the same time, it could also affect traffic that passes through the Internet backbones that use the DNS resolver.
The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver that Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic * TorrentFreak
The EU is planning to develop its own government-run DNS resolver that can also be used to block unlawful websites.