How exactly will they force compliance for companies not based in Italy, or even the EU?
By banning and blocking all VPN providers not based in Italy.
So by going harder on blocking content that China? Because that’s what they do but most of the big providers get through after a day or two of downtime each time the government make a change to block them.
Sounds like a possible violation of EU rights. Similar practices have cost other governments dearly in the past.
Better yet, how will they determine what is “pirated content”?
They will, at best, mildly inconvenienced the pirates.
“Italian organized crime groups receipts have been estimated to reach 7–9% of Italy’s GDP.”
But I guess pirating books is a more pressing problem.
Not if you’re MetaFace it isn’t.
So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
[Speculation]
They’ll probably get a list of hashes from major copyright holders. So the biggest torrents won’t work, but you’ll still be able to pirate small-time artists.
How would a hash help? The dns just gives you info to resolve the destination, not the content.
They would need to map the trackers most likely
This is actually about having the power of one person in an office wiping out any internet domain from the country.
Heh… Good luck forcing VPN to do anything!
Australia already has this, but it is extremely easy to circumvent, just use a different VPN.
Don’t even have to go that far, just change your DNS to a non-Australian one. Anything that turns up from a “top 10 dns providers” search works.
Are there even any decent VPN providers operating in Italy? What is the point of this?
