pages.dev is a Cloudflare domain. While they resolve to different IPv6 addresses, it still seems likely they point to the same hosted source - pages.dev being the Cloudflare host subdomain from the hoster and fmhy.net being a separate domain pointing to the same thing.
That’s a very ambiguous and loaded question.
Note that sophisticated malware [attempts to] identify whether it is running in a VM / testbed / analysis scenario and may behave and look different between that runtime scenario and “normal use”.
Analysis in a VM may not be sufficient to determine whether it is safe outside of it.
A torrent software that breaks your big/video file sharing while calling it complete seems somewhat questionable, not following a good practice, for the reasons you said.
qBittorrent stores the partial file data of deselected files as generic files. Given that only with it the download and a recheck marks the big file complete, without it a recheck considers the big file unfinished (and if partial files are renamed it is despite being complete as a file), I presume it will also send out the block that is partially that file and another to other peers too.
If the other file is fully in the partial block qBittorrent even creates the files despite not having been selected for downloading.
Wash them on Wednesday, because the W stands for wash.
Good thing I press “Reply” for this comment and not “Share”.
At the bottom, I see Visa and Mastercard. Not big enough yet, did not get contacted yet, or did not implement it yet?
They mention deindexing from browse and search. I understand this to mean you can still visit and buy the products, and list the publisher’s titles on their publisher’s page.
That’s far from “banning”. And doesn’t prevent the supporting creators and browsing their catalog - the use-case OP described.
This doesn’t make sense.
They say “endpoint in the UK” and “VPN Server in the UK”, and that they could not confirm whether outside the UK would still block.
Cloudflare blocks UK requests. If you use a VPN you choose which country you send the requests from.
Cloudflare as a separate entity from the VPN provider can’t know where requests originally came from. That’s the whole point of the VPN.
There is nothing new here. The article seems to misunderstand and to misrepresent.
Adding another free alternative; The free Cloudflare Warp for a semi-VPN. You can’t choose your output node, but your traffic gets routed through their network.
It can run in proxy mode as well if you prefer only your torrent traffic being routed through it.
Do I need to say more?
Yes. Did the notices cost you anything, or did you ignore them without consequences?
I presume it’s based on their legal cost of the three previous cases.
I agree it’s very low in terms of cost of business, as legal cost, or seeking damages.
From their Terms:
When you open the Webbrowser Developer Tools, Network tab, you can see where it streams from.
When I check on a song, it streams it from a CDN of qobuz (qobuz.com).