Quad9 published Court decision regarding appeal filed in response The order of blocking pirated sites at the level of public DNS resolves QUAD9. The court refused to satisfy the appeal and did not support the requirement to suspend the forensic ban, previously made in the case, initiated by Sony Music. Representatives of Quad9 stated that they would not stop and try to appeal the decision in the court of the highest instance, as well as appeal to the protection of the interests of other users and organizations on which such locks can affect.
Recall that Sony Music has achieved a decision on blocking domain names, outrered in the spread of musical content that violates copyright. The lock was prescribed to implement on the QUAD9 DNS service servers serving including the public DNS resolver “9.9.9.9” and DNS OVER HTTPS services (“dns.quad9.net/dns-query/”) and “DNS OVER TLS “(” dns.quad9.net “). The order of blocking was made despite the lack of direct links of the non-profit organization QUAD9 with blockable sites and systems distributing such content, only on the basis that the resolution of the names of pirated sites through DNS contributes to the copyright of Sony.
quad9 considers the requirement of blocking unlawful, since the domain names and information processed by QUAD9 are not an object of copyright infringement of Sony Music, there are no data on QUAD9 servers that violate copyrights, QUAD9 is not direct responsibility for someone else’s pirate activities and There is no business relationship with the distributors of pirate content. According to QUAD9, corporations cannot be provided with the possibility of coercive network infrastructure to censorization of sites.
The Sony Music position is reduced to the fact that Quad9 already provides in its product to block domains that spread malware and outdoled in phishing. QUAD9 promotes blocking problem sites as one of the service attributes, therefore, must block and pirate sites, as one of the types of violating the law of the content. In case of non-fulfillment, the requirement of blocking the organization QUAD9 is facing a fine of 250 thousand euros.
Despite the fact that the blocking of links to unlicensed content in search engines has long been practiced from copyright holders, representatives of QUAD9 are considering translating blockages to the side of third-party DNS services as a dangerous precedent, which may have far-reaching consequences (the next step can be the requirement of locking integration Pirate sites in browsers, operating systems, anti-virus software, firewalls and any other third-party systems that can affect access to information). For copyright holders, the same interest in the coercion of DNS servers to implement the locks is caused by the fact that these services are used by users to bypass DNS filters of pirate content installed from providers included in the coalition “ Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet . “