Google fined for not blocking access to pirated content

Google has just been fined in Portugal for not blocking access to a website that distributes pirated content (article in Portuguese):

For at least a decade, maybe two, ISPs have been ordered by courts to block access to certain websites and they comply by implementing a DNS level block. Novel here is them going after third party DNS resolvers. When we have devices that come configured out of the box to use Google DNS, I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later…

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Can’t believe I say this, but hopefully Google tells them to fuck off…

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