> Blocking is the wrong terminology here.
This is geo-blocking, by definition.
Personally, it's always sad when a company agrees to censor on their own merit when they don't have legal obligation to.
Personally, it's always sad when a company agrees to censor on their own merit when they don't have legal obligation to.
> This is geo-blocking, by definition.
Do you also refer to steam games that only sell in some regions as "geo-blocking"? I don't. Steam doesn't (they call them region restrictions). There's no blocking going on, merely declining to offer something in the first place. Cloudflare is the host here, they aren't blocking anything, they just aren't providing the pirate site in the first place.
> when they don't have legal obligation to.
While I know relatively little about UK law I'm extremely skeptical of the idea that cloudflare does not have a legal obligation to not knowingly host websites committing copyright infringement.
So I am not blocked from buying a game based on my geographic location, I am merely restricted from it based on my region...
Similarly you can block a punch, but not if it was never thrown.