[193727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sadiq Saif)
Thu Feb 16 19:19:25 2017
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From: Sadiq Saif <lists@sadiqs.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:59:54 -0500
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On 2017-02-14 08:27, Jared Mauch wrote:
> So risk avoidance on the part of the 100k other sites hosted by CF is now a conspiracy?
>
> I'm surprised it took this many years for something like this to happen. Wonder which LE in which country...
>
> Either way seems nothing too suspicious is going on here.
>
> Jared Mauch
Looks like it was a court order issued recently in Spain.
"Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer yesterday confirmed to Ars that the company
is complying with a court order issued recently in Spain."
TPB was not actually the target, it was collateral.
"But The Pirate Bay was not the subject of the court order, Schaeffer
also confirmed."
From -
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/a-court-order-blocked-pirate-sites-that-werent-supposed-to-be-blocked/
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