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> At the heart of the conflict is Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield,’ a system designed to combat illegal live streams of sports events, such as Serie A football matches.
by raincole 10mo ago
> At the heart of the conflict is Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield,’ a system designed to combat illegal live streams of sports events, such as Serie A football matches. The law requires internet service providers to block reported piracy sites within 30 minutes. AGCOM insists that Cloudflare comply with these demands through its public DNS service, 1.1.1.1. When Cloudflare allegedly failed to do so, the regulator imposed a fine of over €14 million.
Doesn't EU have some kind of net neutrality act? Italy gov can ask DNS resolver to just block pirate sites?
- ronsor 10mo agoIt's regular practice to block arbitrary websites in EU countries. From Spain to Germany to Italy, DNS blocks are common. Naturally "rightsholders" abuse this often.
- adrr 10mo agoCommon in all countries. US will seize domains from TLDs under US jurisdiction.
- anonzzzies 10mo agoI only know this to be done for televised sports, notably soccer here in the EU. Looking at those block lists, they are mainly streaming sites.
- cookiengineer 10mo agoGoogle: CUII (Clearingstelle fuer Urheberrecht im Internet). It's essentially a Dachverband of ISPs, bypassing all legal requirements and the judicative system to block domains across all ISPs. There's this kid who found out about it and scraped their API, then created the cuiiliste [dot] de website where you can check what kind of domains are blocked by ISPs. The verfassungsblog wrote about it, too, from a legal perspective [1] (German). [1] https://verfassungsblog.de/netzsperren-cuii/ https://verfassungsblog.de/netzsperren-cuii/
- wmf 10mo agoCopyright overrides net neutrality.
- samuelhautamaki 10mo agoUnfortunately even if we did have net neutrality, the EU is only a confederation at best, national law supercedes it.