Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Creating Real Problems As VPNs Start Turning Away Italian Users
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.
This seems to include all forms of VPNs, including corporate ones.
Eh, I doubt it. If the exit point is in Italy it would be going through an Italian ISP, and that ISP should be responsible for enforcing the filter, the same as it would be for a retail customer.
A document detailing technical requirements of Italy’s Piracy Shield anti-piracy system confirms that ISPs are not alone in being required to block pirate IPTV services. All VPN and open DNS services must also comply with blocking orders, including through accreditation to the Piracy Shield platform.
According to the article, it requires them to get accreditation to operate in in Italy, unless I'm reading that wrong.
Most corporate VPN companies I've dealt with would love to slip in additional cost to counteract this cost on their end.
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.In poorer countries, sure.
In most 1st world countries, using pirated software is basically giving groups like FAST a licence to fuck you out of business.
Italy isn't a 1st world country. It only looks that way at the top.
It's really not.
In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.
Lol. You think Italy is rich? The lower you go down the boot, the poorer the leather.
Remember the bridge that collapsed because the company that built it cut corners? That's the standard of business there.The bridge was near Genova, in the North, btw. For good or for bad, Italy is still a member of g7, and despite the gazillion problems, relatively to other countries, it is a rich country.