The title here is misleading.
Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.
“Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.
We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.
VPNs will help. The article is only talking about VPN servers based in a location with a geo ban, which, duh. But if you actually use your VPN to be in a different country and not just a different city it’ll work fine.
Yeah, I’d say that the title here is clickbait. The author is working awfully hard to try to frame the issue in the article in such a way that they can write that title.
The editorialized title makes it sound like they made a decision and it wasn’t because of a court order.
Actual article title: “Cloudflare cracks down on UK piracy – and VPN users are getting caught in the crossfire”
Not much better, but it is better than the OP’s title.
Usually Cloudflare fights (successfully) against the orders, laying the responsibility with ISPs. This marks a change in corporate policy.
they don’t just whimsically decide on a daily basis whether or not to comply with court orders. something changed legally that caused them to take action.
That assumes they didn’t fight and lose this time.
