ISPs block 63 pirate sites

Following a recent court ruling, French internet service providers must block sixty sites that illegally download or stream content.

Bad news if you're a fan of illegal downloading or streaming: in the appDecision of the Paris Judicial Court from February 2024, the main French Internet access providers (Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR) must block sixty sites offering pirated content, mainly movies, series and music. The move follows a complaint by several audiovisual production companies and rights protection organizations such as Gaumont, Paramount Pictures Corporation, National Federation of Film Publishers (FNEF), Digital Video Editing Union (SEVN), Association of Independent Producers (API). ) and the National Center for Cinema and Animation (CNCIA).

This court ruling requires ISPs to prevent continued access to specific sites – more precisely to domain names – by using appropriate measures. “These measures shall be implemented without delay and upon the expiry of 15 days following the notification of this decision and for a period of 18 months”Refers to text that clearly gives a list of relevant parts.

• coflix.cam
• coflix.nu
• empire-stream.net, empire-streaming.eu, empire-stream.com, empire-streaming.app;
• emule-island.eu
• extreme-under.mo, extreme-under.game, extreme-under.casa, extreme-under.art, extreme-under.red, extreme-under.work, extreme-under.fun
• filmostream.top
• Filmcultes.online, filmscultes.me
• filmvf.io
• fmoviesz.to
• French-stream.art
• French-streamy.com
• gratfilm.org
• gratseries.com
• nfseries.com
• papadustream.net
• sadisflix.top
• serial-fr.co
• streamingdivx.buzz
• streaminze.org
• torrent411.to
• tvfranc.top
• voirfilms.st
• series.icu
• wi-flix.top
• wiflix.voto, wiflix.surf, wiflix.studio, wiflix.site, wiflix.re, wiflix.kiwi, wiflix.fan, wiflix.family, wiflix.cool, wiflix.city, wiflix.audio
• wowfilms.buzz
• yggtorrent.wtf, yggtorrent.se, yggtorrent.re, yggtorrent.is, yggtorrent.fi, yggtorrent.ch, yggtorrent.to, yggtorrent.si, yggtorrent.nz, yggtorrent.lol, yggtorrent.li, yggtorrent.
• yts.mx, yts.lt, yts.com, yts.ag

As we can see, the list includes the most popular sites such as Yggtorrent, T411 or Extreme Download, but also lesser-known services such as French Streamy, Coflix or Voirfilms. On the other hand, we may be surprised to see that it includes the most popular sites such as Darkino, Tirexo or Wawacity (see our article). For the next round of banning?

We imagine that this would be a classic DNS block, if the measures soon implemented by the operators were not well known: very easy to circumvent by using alternative DNS servers. Our practice sheet. It is not certain that this official blocking will be very effective in practice, especially since the text of the court decision clearly gives the URLs, and therefore the addresses of the targeted sites, advertising them… Finally, the blocking of the domain names. In order to avoid this type of activity, it will not be enough to remove all these sites that have a habit of regularly changing their URL: regulars will quickly find their new addresses on the Internet or on messaging services. The eternal game of hide-and-seek never ends.