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[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, and my ISP has been legally told to block all Access to IPTV and do so. Why this happens I don't understand (or agree with). Going after the source is the only one true way to stop access.

Cloudflare is a popular service for public torrent sites because they cache the content, protect from DDOS, and hide the server address. They're not on the hook for what their customers do.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed! If I had to take a guess, its a Risk vs Reward game so-to-speak. Your ISP doesn't really have anything to lose by complying, but Cloudflare's whole business revolves around reputation (something most ISPs clearly don't care about unfortunately) along with being a massive CDN. To them, the risk of having their reputation sullied by someone going "I don't like this" and taking down a potentially paying customer's site makes it worthwhile fighting the legal battles that could come out of not complying with a takedown request.

Just guessing of course, but it would somewhat make sense.