Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com RGB @lemmy.dbzer0.com 7mo ago

Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Creating Real Problems As VPNs Start Turning Away Italian Users

it is so dystopian...

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I hope it runs their economy into the ground hard time so nobody dares to do something like that again.
- How would it affect their economy?
  
  Reading the article: A ruling body filled with randos puts a site on a block list and every VPN operating in Italy must block the site within 30 minutes. There is no review or judicial oversight to sites added to the block list. This seems to include all forms of VPNs, including corporate ones. They could start charging a premium to Italian users which would start affecting businesses, I guess.
  
  Lol. It's common place for companies to use pirated software in order to reduce costs.
  Licences and subscriptions can get expensive, so when companies get forced to increase costs, they tend to fuck off somewhere else.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240229043417/https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/italys-piracy-shield-creating-real-problems-as-vpns-start-turning-away-italian-users/
- Scarry read.
On the plus side, maybe more tor users?
There's another one after airvpn? That was because they had the headquarters in Italy so they had no other choice.
Man, I've used AirVPN forever. Should I change now?
- Id like to know as well
Will this change something for italian pirates?
- They will just buy a VPN from a company that isn't incorporated in Italy (airvpn is based in Italy so they were forced to do that)
  
  And everyone in Italy need to be forced to get a VPN as we (I'm Italian) gave the keys to a few copyright trolls with no supervision or repercussions for wrong blockings.
  
  Saturday afternoon my uptime Kuma telegram bot started to send me hundreds of notifications "your websites are down!" And I panicked. I literally had no idea what was going on. My server was ok, why I couldn't access my websites? Rebooted 5 times, still down. Cloudflare tunnels were giving a weird error. After two hours of troubleshooting and still hundreds of down notifications I just gave up. "Maybe it's an issue with cloudflare" - I thought. I disabled the telegram bot and I went to sleep.
  
  It was the fucking copyright trolls that blocked fucking cloudflare
  
  And no official media talked about this. When Facebook has 3 minutes of downtime, the news on TV act like Italy was cut out from the world for a week. Here the copyright trolls blocked the biggest CDN in the world for a fucking day and the media fucking ignored the issue. Not a single news about that. The block was silently removed, and it never officially happened.
  
  I hope that this disaster triggers the EU to forbid a platform like this because this is too dangerous. What if next time instead of blocking cloudflare accidentally it's blocked "accidentally"?
As an Italian... Fuck
The Italian population is very old. This old generation of white man can't die fast enough
- This whole thing happened while a young woman is in power. This has to do with submission to economic power, not with gender and age.
  
  I think from her part it was more about planting the seeds of a censorship tool than pleasing economic powers. Right-wing scum always attack freedom of speech first.
- Mh, interesting, I would like to disagree

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