Clients of Cloudflare CDN has been caught in Austrian fight against pirate sites
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On Monday, excessive and indiscriminate blocking is underway in Austria, with internet service providers (ISPs) obeying with a court order for blocking pirate sites that are causing significant collateral damage.
The legal case was launched by the copyright organization “LSG – Wahrnehmung von Leistungsschutzrechten GesmbH”, which convinced an Austrian court to block 14 websites for copyright law violations.
The problem emerging from this measure is that the bans also expanded to specific IP addresses belonging to Cloudflare servers that support many other sites that do not breach copyright laws, Bleeping computer reports.
The affected websites examples include Magenta, Salzburg AG, the Preis Zone shop, yesss!, Raiffeisen Mobil, SOS Mitmensch, and Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH.
As Austrian DerStandard comments in a report on the matter, the origin of the problem is that the copyright organization provided a list of IP addresses that ISPs bans without checking who used them.
As it emerged, the list also includes a set of at least nine IP addresses that Cloudflare used for its CDN to provide services (security, reliability, performance) to legitimate websites.
According to the same outlet, Cloudflare confirmed the problem and notified the affected customers.
