In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9 says that it’s determined to appeal what it sees as an absurd application of copyright law. For now, however, it will block the targeted domain names globally.
I think this is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened to quad9 and the 2nd successful time (they also were forced to poison their DNS by the Italian government).