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Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS
Belgiumâs âtwoâstepâ pirateâsite blockade is getting more surgical, and this week it turned its sights on illegal IPTV streams.
Broadcasters RTLâŻBelgium and RTBF won a court order that forces the countryâs five big ISPsâProximus, Telenet, Orange Belgium, Mobile Vikings and DIGIâto block the domains of five shady IPTV services (LEMEILLEURIPTV, BESTIPTVABO, ATLASPRO12, OTTâŻPREMIUM and MIJNIPTV) and any future mirrors. The ban is DNSâbased, but hereâs the twist: the order doesnât ask Cloudflare or Google to block at the resolver level.
Instead, both tech giants must act as infrastructure providers: Cloudflare must stop serving the sites if itâs acting as CDN/host, while Google must pull the domains from its search index, ads network and relevant cloud services. Their public DNS resolvers (including GoogleâŻPublicâŻDNS and CloudflareâŻ1.1.1.1) are left untouchedâa concession likely tied to Ciscoâs ongoing appeal over earlier DNSâblocking mandates.
What this means for users is simple: your ISP will cut off the IPTV sites, but you can still resolve their names elsewhereâthough you wonât find them in Google search or on Cloudflareâhosted pages. The case underscores how Belgiumâs blocking regime keeps tweaking its scope in real time, and it may set a precedent for future European orders that target infrastructure without throttling public DNS.