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France has escalated its anti-piracy efforts significantly. The Paris Judicial Court issued seven simultaneous rulings on March 18, ordering French ISPs, major DNS resolvers, and several top VPN providers to block access to 35 sports streaming sites.
Rather than targeting one layer at a time, this ruling sweeps across the entire technical stack at once. It’s a direct expansion of the earlier French court order requiring VPNs to block pirate sites.
Spanish football league LaLiga filed the blocking requests, but the court declared LaLiga’s claims inadmissible. Under French law, only broadcasters and state-delegated leagues qualify to bring these orders. LaLiga is Spanish and doesn’t meet that threshold.
beIN Sports France, which holds exclusive French broadcast rights for LaLiga, stepped in, presented evidence of piracy, and the court granted all seven orders in its name.
The orders cover nineteen French ISPs, including Orange, SFR, Free, and Bouygues Telecom. Switching to a public DNS server won’t help either. Google, Cloudflare, and Quad9 are all covered under separate orders.
VPNs are blocked too: ProtonVPN, CyberGhost, and ExpressVPN received orders, with NordVPN and Surfshark reportedly included as well.
This follows a similar pattern to the Spanish court ruling against NordVPN and ProtonVPN.
The orders run through June 21, 2026, and are dynamic. New domains can be added at any time with approval from France’s media regulator, ARCOM.
Below are some of the notable domains being targeted. You can view the full list of domains in the blocking order (PDF).
France is now treating anti-piracy enforcement as a full-stack problem. Blocking ISPs, DNS resolvers, CDN infrastructure, and VPN services simultaneously closes off most of the usual workarounds.
Whether other countries follow France’s lead with this coordinated approach is the next question. The pressure on VPN providers is growing across Europe, and it’s not an optimistic trend for those trying to protect their online privacy…
For more details on this story, refer to the original report from TorrentFreak.
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