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A comment on Ask HN: What gives Cloudflare the right to takedown apps revealing site real IP?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What gives Cloudflare the right to takedown apps ... by ushakov on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:37AM (#31095948)
aren’t there any legitimate use-cases for it?
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Re:Ask HN: What gives Cloudflare the right to takedown apps ... by jokethrowaway on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:43AM (#31096023)
Yes, for example, pirate websites are often hiding their identity and if someone is infringing on your copyright you can't go and report it to their hosts because Cloudflare hides the IP. Reporting DMCA to Cloudflare won't give you the IP of their hosts.

A court ruling exempted Cloudflare from its users infringements of copyright making things easy for them.

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Re:Ask HN: What gives Cloudflare the right to takedown apps ... by zinekeller on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:53AM (#31096140)
The said ruling: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/cloudflare-doesn...

In practice however, when you peel off Cloudflare you'll be stumped anyways as the DMCA request will be plainly ignored by those "bulletproof" hosts, so I don't think that knowing the real IP would change your chances, and if you're formally filing a case why just not subpoena Cloudflare?

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