Cloudflare has now been dragged kicking and screaming into the real world where it can no longer offer safe harbour to illegal, infringing or criminal websites.
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A California Internet company ordered by a federal judge to stop providing services to a copycat version of Grooveshark, the streaming music website shut down in April by a copyright dispute, says it is being improperly thrust into an enforcement role.
The order Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan widening a preliminary injunction against the operators of the cloned Grooveshark to now include CloudFlare, Inc, "makes CloudFlare and other Internet Service Providers the copyright and trademark police for other rights holders," the company's general counsel, Kenneth Carter, said in an interview.
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Web company says judge's ruling turns it into 'copyright police' | Reuters