[CPWG] Sony Wins Pirate Site Blocking Order Against DNS-Resolver Quad9

[Justine Chew]

Right. Thanks, Bill, for the info. It will be useful to know of the Swiss
Courts' ruling on enforceability of the German injunction order, in due
course.

Justine
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, 07:47 Bill Woodcock, <woody at pch.net> wrote:

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> > On Jun 25, 2021, at 1:31 AM, Justine Chew via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On the basis of a lack of familiarity with this case ...... it begs the
> question, did Sony go after the German pirate site directly? If it did,
> then what happened there?
>
> My understanding is that they sent them an email.  Which undoubtedly went
> straight to the spam filter.  That was a necessary precondition of their
> ability to file against us, because the pirate site is “closer” to the
> infringement.
>
> > And if it did not, I wonder why not (instead of seeking to injunct only
> one DNS resolver service provider)?
>
> Because the goal was to go after us, in order to gain a precedent that
> bystanders unrelated to the infringement are each equally liable for the
> entire damage.  Although we didn’t find out about it until last Friday, the
> court documents show that they started this whole process just thirty-five
> days after we moved to Europe.
>
>                                 -Bill
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