Wrong Logo, No Piracy Proof: French Court Rejects DNS Piracy Blocking Bids
French courts continue to expand the scope of sports piracy related DNS blocking, but orders are not signed blindly.
This means that beIN has neighboring rights and, according to the Paris court, needs to show that streams infringing its neighboring rights are shown by the alleged pirate sites. For example, by displaying a beIN logo.
That was not the case for all domains. For example, the infringement evidence for streamendous.online and techydeals.online included broadcasts with the DAZN logo, while some WTA streams did not include a logo at all. Therefore, the court deemed this proof to be insufficient.
Whether beIN plans to partially refile its blocking request with the correct logos is unknown. If they do, a move by pirate stream operators to step up logo blurring could amount to a novel type of blocking circumvention, complicating matters further.
Time for cat and mouse game on logo blur.
Solution: put a facebook, amazon, google logo on it so courts block their dns?