{"rewrite":{"id":"r_4de6934581dbd671cdbfbe98","clusterId":"c_e65cb24e399438b2f9626811","slug":"brussels-court-upholds-dazn-s-dns-blocking-order-against-google-cloudflare-cisco","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Brussels Court Upholds DAZN's DNS Blocking Order Against Google, Cloudflare, Cisco","summary":"Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco lost their appeal against a Belgian court order requiring them to block pirate sports streaming domains. The president of the Brussels Dutch-speaking Commercial Court dismissed the core parts of the appeals on August 20, 2026, while revoking part of the 2025 order. The DNS blocking obligation stands, and the court found the companies could not prove the costs were disproportionate.","whyItMatters":"The ruling extends Belgium's pirate-site blocking regime from internet service providers to the public DNS resolvers that sit underneath them, and three of the largest resolver operators have now been told that blocking domains on their systems is technically feasible and not disproportionately costly.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe order dates to April 2025, when DAZN and the soccer broadcaster 12th Player ran a campaign with Belgian internet service providers against more than 100 illegal streaming services and IPTV providers. That blocking order required Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to make over 130 domains unreachable, with a fine of 100,000 euros per day for non-compliance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three companies complied in different ways. Cisco withdrew OpenDNS from Belgium entirely. Google refused DNS queries for the targeted domains. Cloudflare redirected users in countries with blocking orders to an error page. All three objected, and the court dismissed the core parts of those appeals.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco argued the DNS blocking costs were disproportionate. The Brussels Dutch-speaking Commercial Court rejected that argument, and the blocking obligation stands.","twitterPost":"Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco could not prove the blocking costs were disproportionate. The Brussels DNS order holds.","threadsPost":"DAZN's DNS blocking order survived appeal because Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco could not prove the costs were disproportionate, and the Brussels court said so in an August 20, 2026 ruling.","newsletterBlurb":"Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco lost the core parts of their appeal against a Belgian blocking order that requires them to make pirate sports streaming domains unreachable, with the Brussels Dutch-speaking Commercial Court ruling on August 20, 2026. The DNS blocking obligation survives, while the requirement to redirect to warning pages was removed and penalties for violations were relaxed. The court found alternative DNS resolvers can technically block domains and that the companies did not prove the costs were disproportionate.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20260918-dazn-dns-blocking/\",\"title\":\"Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco Lose Appeal Against DAZN's Court Order on Illegal Sports Streaming\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4643,"outputTokens":588,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789730061,"createdAt":"2026-09-18T11:08:51.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-18T11:13:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T11:13:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_e65cb24e399438b2f9626811","canonicalTitle":"DAZNが取得したスポーツの違法配信に関する差し止め命令にGoogle・Cloudflare・Ciscoが異議申し立てをするも敗訴","representativeArticleId":"a_f5dede76282b017cc4666ea1","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-18T10:15:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-18T10:15:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-18T11:13:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20260918-dazn-dns-blocking/","title":"DAZNが取得したスポーツの違法配信に関する差し止め命令にGoogle・Cloudflare・Ciscoが異議申し立てをするも敗訴"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}