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They don't have to be the police. Cloudflare are a private company, not a public utility. They can deny service to anyone they want (within the bounds of the la

• Joel_Mckay 3y ago
  No, as a business they are technically liable for their users illegal theft of services once notified of the problem. i.e. unless they want to host in a lawless foreign data-center begging for scrip-coin they should care. =)
  • cookiengineer 3y ago
    > lawless foreign data-center Anecdotal forest city / woodlands in Malaysia / Singapore note. The territorial dispute led to most organizations there doing shady business online, as nobody is ruling these lands, effectively.
    • Joel_Mckay 3y ago
      Singapore is hardly a place anyone would want to get in trouble, and visitors are specifically warned some folks have weaponized the most punitive aspects of local laws. i.e. if you aren't careful and someone drops a pill in your luggage, they do shoot people without trial on the following Tuesday. And yes, having stuff reverse engineered at the local university care of an unscrupulous US company is common. One really can't take it personally, as it is legal there. =)
• clwg 3y ago
  They can also allow service to anyone they want and accept the liability, whatever that may be for doing so, which is what they are doing. I'm not disagreeing with you, or trying to defend Cloudflare – I just see a very complicated situation, especially when you consider the DNS ecosystem, which in itself is extremely shady. You also run the risk of DMCA-style procedures that would require equal application across service providers and would undoubtedly be abused by bad actors.