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I wish they hadn't complied. It wouldn't be the first time a tech company stood up to this kind of thing. (Github and youtube-dl, Digg and HDDVD key, etc).

Not familiar with German law. What would happen if they simply ignored the injunction?

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Neither Digg nor GitHub stood up to a court order in either of these cases. A DMCA notice was used with no court involvement in both cases.

I'm pretty sure it would be the first time. Normally they fight it in court, they don't disobey court orders after the fact. Neither of your examples did. If they did their hardware would be confiscated by the police.

Yes, it's unfortunate, but it's still a far superior position than, say, Google or GoDaddy.

In this case, Quad9 is being compelled by a court, with the force of law, to do so.

GoDaddy and Google will yank your entire domain if enough anonymous communists complain on Twitter that your content is undesirable.

That would have been really nice, but I can't blame them. If I were in their position, I would save my company and employees first. Making noise about it comes after their wellbeing.

We don't have any staff based in Germany, and none of us are traveling to Germany until this is settled.

That's not how activism works. No one will pay attention and writing White House online petitions doesn't do anything either.

The police might come take their DNS servers.

probably impossible since they are sitting in switzerland and are not subjected to this directly.

The organization is in Switzerland, but the DNS servers are all over the world - including in Germany (for now).

Are you unable to resolve domain names?

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