Quad9 DNS Resolver to exit France

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Quad9 DNS Resolver to exit France

Back to Blog Farewell, France We have some news to share with you. Summary Starting November 24, Quad9 will no longer be able to offer its free cyberprotection service to users located in France. The French courts yesterday handed down an unfavorable ruling against Quad9 in a major case that undermines the transparency and stability of the internet.

回到博客：再见，法国。我们有一些消息要与大家分享。摘要：自11月24日起，Quad9将无法再向位于法国的用户提供其免费的网络保护服务。法国法院昨日对Quad9做出了一项不利裁决，这起重大案件破坏了互联网的透明度和稳定性。

This decision in favor of beIN forces Quad9 to block the recursive DNS resolution for a number of domain names for users located in France. The good news is the court significantly reduced the financial penalty, from €580,000 to €1,000 per day. However, for Quad9, this has never been just a financial issue: it is a matter of principle.

这项支持beIN的裁决迫使Quad9必须为位于法国的用户屏蔽若干域名的递归DNS解析。好消息是，法院大幅降低了经济处罚，从每天58万欧元降至每天1000欧元。然而，对于Quad9来说，这从来不仅仅是一个财务问题，而是一个原则问题。

We cannot comply with this ruling over the long term while remaining faithful to our mission to protect your privacy, defend you against cyber threats, and preserve the integrity of the internet. For us, recursive DNS resolution is a neutral and passive service. We categorically refuse to alter or lie to you about the DNS responses you receive in a way that opposes your expectations.

我们无法在长期遵守此裁决的同时，继续忠实于我们保护您的隐私、防御网络威胁并维护互联网完整性的使命。对我们而言，递归DNS解析是一项中立且被动的服务。我们断然拒绝以违背您预期的方式，篡改或欺骗您所接收到的DNS响应。

This ruling forces an untenable position upon us. Compliance is technically unfeasible, and implementation directly contradicts our mandate to serve the public. As a result, we have made the difficult decision to withdraw Quad9 services from France as of Tuesday, November 24. We deeply regret that French internet users will be left without an alternative that can adequately protect their cybersecurity while remaining compliant with European privacy law.

这项裁决将我们置于一个无法维持的境地。合规在技术上不可行，且执行该裁决直接违背了我们服务公众的宗旨。因此，我们做出了一个艰难的决定：自11月24日星期二起，从法国撤出Quad9服务。我们深感遗憾的是，法国互联网用户将失去一个既能充分保护其网络安全，又能符合欧洲隐私法的替代方案。

Background beIN, a Qatari company with offices in France, previously sought to force Quad9 to block resolution for a set of domain names they assert are participating in copyright infringement of its audiovisual rights on sports event broadcasts. Quad9 has no association with these domain names, nor with the operators of the websites.

背景：beIN是一家在法国设有办事处的卡塔尔公司，此前曾试图强迫Quad9屏蔽一组域名，他们声称这些域名参与了对其体育赛事转播视听权利的版权侵权。Quad9与这些域名以及这些网站的运营者没有任何关联。

The French courts have fundamentally misunderstood the working of the internet and the role of the domain name system and have allowed a financial penalty to apply to Quad9 if we do not block DNS responses to users in France. Quad9 is a Swiss public-benefit, nonprofit foundation established for the explicit purpose of protecting the cybersecurity of internet users.

法国法院从根本上误解了互联网的运作方式以及域名系统的作用，并允许在Quad9不屏蔽法国用户DNS响应的情况下对其处以罚款。Quad9是一家瑞士公益性非营利基金会，其明确宗旨是保护互联网用户的网络安全。

We charge nothing for our service and serve all people and organizations which seek to improve the security and privacy of their internet use. Our core values are to make privacy, security, and integrity available to all internet users, and our mission is to universally apply these guiding principles to recursive DNS resolution services in order to serve end users.

我们不收取任何服务费用，并为所有寻求改善其互联网使用安全性和隐私性的个人及组织提供服务。我们的核心价值观是让所有互联网用户都能享有隐私、安全和完整性，我们的使命是将这些指导原则普遍应用于递归DNS解析服务，以服务终端用户。

We want to be very clear: we do not condone content piracy. Quad9 exists to create a safer, more trustworthy internet experience for end users. We offer global blocking as an option for malicious cyberactivity against users worldwide. We do not block content, and we give users the choice to use our threat blocking services, or not, based on their interests and needs.

我们想明确一点：我们不纵容内容盗版。Quad9的存在是为了给终端用户创造一个更安全、更值得信赖的互联网体验。我们提供全球屏蔽功能，作为针对全球用户恶意网络活动的选项。我们不屏蔽内容，并让用户根据自己的兴趣和需求选择是否使用我们的威胁屏蔽服务。

Content piracy needs to be dealt with at the source: the place where the infringing content is published. Forcing uninvolved third parties to break the fundamental operating principles of the internet to benefit individual parties to the detriment of the global internet-using public is misguided, counter-productive, and distracts from actual solutions addressing the hosting of the content directly, or the market pressures which cause piracy to exist in the first place.

内容盗版需要从源头处理：即侵权内容发布的地方。强迫无关的第三方破坏互联网的基本运作原则，以牺牲全球互联网公众的利益来造福个别方，这种做法是误导性的、适得其反的，并且转移了对直接解决内容托管问题或导致盗版存在的市场压力等实际解决方案的关注。

Not only are DNS recursive resolvers, like Quad9, the wrong actors to address piracy, but applying legal pressure to Quad9 will also have vast unintended consequences harming the cybersecurity of hundreds of millions of innocent internet users. For Quad9, complying with this ruling is impossible. We have no database of users associating them with jurisdictions.

像Quad9这样的DNS递归解析器不仅不是解决盗版的合适对象，而且对Quad9施加法律压力还会产生巨大的意外后果，损害数亿无辜互联网用户的网络安全。对于Quad9来说，遵守这项裁决是不可能的。我们没有将用户与司法管辖区关联的数据库。

Our service is free to the public and does not require sign-up or proof of identity. Recursive DNS is so fundamental to the underlying operation of the internet that there is no method to map users’ jurisdictions reliably, nor do we think there should be a way to force users to identify themselves before they can connect to the internet.

我们的服务对公众免费，不需要注册或身份证明。递归DNS对于互联网的底层运作至关重要，以至于没有方法可以可靠地映射用户的司法管辖区，我们也不认为应该有一种方式强迫用户在连接互联网之前必须进行身份识别。

Our core goals – privacy of user data and honesty of responses - are directly opposed to the methods necessary to implement the blocking this court ruling would require us to perform. There is no way we can determine which users this ruling applies to – we have no list of French users, because we do not keep dossiers of our users at all.

我们的核心目标——用户数据隐私和响应的诚实性——与执行该法院裁决所必需的屏蔽方法直接对立。我们无法确定该裁决适用于哪些用户——我们没有法国用户名单，因为我们根本不保留用户的档案。

If we do not comply, we will face a daily penalty of 1.000 euros until the blocking concludes on November 14 (i.e., 24.000 euros) not including our legal defense. Quad9 cannot survive the accumulation of penalties yet to be assessed in 20 other pending cases, nor those of future cases similar to the one brought by beIN. Inaction is, therefore, not an option to challenge this decision.

如果我们不遵守，我们将面临每天1000欧元的罚款，直到11月14日屏蔽结束（即24000欧元），这还不包括我们的法律辩护费用。Quad9无法承受在其他20起未决案件中可能产生的累计罚款，也无法承受未来类似beIN案件的罚款。因此，不采取行动并不是挑战这一决定的选择。

Can Quad9 just comply via global blocking? We could add these names to our global malicious domain blocking database, which is what we use to provide internet users with malware and phishing protection. This is a single, monolithic set of names applied to all users of our protective services (9.9.9.9 & secondaries) globally but not to our nonprotective services (9.9.9.10 & secondaries).

Quad9能否通过全球屏蔽来合规？我们可以将这些域名添加到我们的全球恶意域名屏蔽数据库中，这是我们用来为互联网用户提供恶意软件和网络钓鱼防护的工具。这是一套单一的、整体的域名列表，应用于全球所有使用我们保护性服务（9.9.9.9及其辅助服务器）的用户，但不应用于我们的非保护性服务（9.9.9.10及其辅助服务器）。

Blocking these names for all users globally would satisfy the requirements of the court. However, this would have the “extraterritorial” effect of applying French legal decisions to every internet user worldwide, when they are meant to solely apply to France, for the commercial benefit of a single private, foreign-owned company.

在全球范围内为所有用户屏蔽这些域名将满足法院的要求。然而，这将产生“域外”效应，即把法国的法律裁决强加给全球每一位互联网用户，而这些裁决本应仅适用于法国，且其目的是为了单一的外国私营公司的商业利益。

We suspect if other nations wished to impose their national legislation within France, there would be a strong reaction from French users and authorities. The converse is equally true: the findings of a French court are not applicable to the rest of the world. Such a system would set a precedent that any nation could impose their laws, morals, economic demands, or social constructs upon any o

我们怀疑，如果其他国家希望在法国境内强加其国家立法，法国用户和当局将会做出强烈反应。反之亦然：法国法院的裁决不适用于世界其他地区。这样的制度将开创一个先例，即任何国家都可以将其法律、道德、经济要求或社会结构强加于任何其他国家。