IP address blocking banned after anti-piracy court order hit Cloudflare
The association of IPs to individuals and particular services is the original sin of the Internet. At Cloudflare, we’re working to fix that sin. That doesn’t mean governments don’t have the right to regulate content on networks in their boarders: they absolutely do so long as they follow principles of Rule of Law. But blocking on an IP can never be transparent — and therefore violates the Rule of Law — and will always cause collateral damage. Terrific that the Austrian authorities recognized that.