Liability for interference: Cloudflare must prevent access to illegal links Universal Music Group against Cloudflare in court Neutral business model Article in c’t 2 / 2009 read Since there have been sufficiently powerful connections, the Internet has also been used for the illegal distribution of copyrighted music. Laws, jurisprudence and technical detection methods, which have been refined over and over again, have made some pirate practices unattractive over time. Gone are the days of simple download websites with locations where the operators are threatened with legal access.

Even once booming file sharing networks via peer-to-peer systems are largely history. But in the age of cloud computing and globally distributed network resources, music pirates are finding concepts that mean new territory for courts. This applies to the use of content delivery networks (CDN) such as Cloudflare.

The 2009 provides its contract customers with all sorts of services related to their offers on the network. Cloudflare products can use distributed caching to keep direct traffic away from customer servers by acting as a reverse or mirror proxy. You can redirect access to the Domain Name System (DNS) with your own DNS resolvers and thus disguise the identity of the site operator. They provide web providers with protection against hacker attacks and at the same time can significantly accelerate data traffic.

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