Understandable choice. Let French users work around these controls in other ways rather than have authorities force you to abandon who you are and what you believe in.
I share the opinion that DNS is a purely technical system part of running the Internet. That DNS is attacked is only out of convenience rather than solving whatever actual problems the actors in question are facing.
In case of copyright infringement claims as in this article, the way to solve this is to deal with the criminals, not terrorize the road network that gets you to them or burn phone books just because it's "easiest".
Why is it that this so often is excused on the Internet? My theory is that it's because the inner workings of Internet is opaque to the common user; a takedown notice via a DNS redirect will look to an end user as if law enforcement got to the criminals themselves, so they get away with it. Even if they didn't because they did a too poor work, were too lazy or didn't want to spend the resources. But these factors shouldn't result in attacking others' valid business models for it and instead result in either accepting your situation or changing your situation.
I share the opinion that DNS is a purely technical system part of running the Internet. That DNS is attacked is only out of convenience rather than solving whatever actual problems the actors in question are facing.
In case of copyright infringement claims as in this article, the way to solve this is to deal with the criminals, not terrorize the road network that gets you to them or burn phone books just because it's "easiest".
Why is it that this so often is excused on the Internet? My theory is that it's because the inner workings of Internet is opaque to the common user; a takedown notice via a DNS redirect will look to an end user as if law enforcement got to the criminals themselves, so they get away with it. Even if they didn't because they did a too poor work, were too lazy or didn't want to spend the resources. But these factors shouldn't result in attacking others' valid business models for it and instead result in either accepting your situation or changing your situation.