> dubious Russian CDNs
Are there multiple? I thought DDoS-Guard [1] had a near-monopoly on CDN services for international piracy.
[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/hamas-may-be-threat-to-8...
No, CloudFlare is implicated as well. If you watch videos from any of the major pirate TVoD sites and inspect the traffic, you can see they're frequently using CloudFlare as their global CDN with a Chinese origin site.