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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

(torrentfreak.com)
234 points gloxkiqcza | 5 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. tlogan ◴[15 Jul 25 15:58 UTC] No.44572516[source]▶
So pirate sites cannot use CloudFlare. But isn’t that against their ToS?

Im just confused - can somebody explain me this?

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2. pjc50 ◴[15 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44572670[source]▶
Cloudflare used to have really open ToS and would host anybody. This included all sorts of far-right sites, and eventually they accepted that they were going to be held responsible for what their customers were doing.
3. xtracto ◴[15 Jul 25 18:00 UTC] No.44574034[source]▶
Pirate Sites are stupid. And the need for a Site is a stupid limitation of Bittorrent. People should use real distributed protocols like SoulSeek, Kademila or other similar file sharing protocols that do not require a website for discovery.
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4. throw123xz ◴[15 Jul 25 18:46 UTC] No.44574512[source]▶
SoulSeek still relies on central servers for some things. Every time they go down, people go to the sub reddit to ask what's happening.
5. boramalper ◴[15 Jul 25 19:34 UTC] No.44574981[source]▶
> Pirate Sites are stupid. And the need for a Site is a stupid limitation of Bittorrent.

See https://bitmagnet.io/