New Law to Crush Pirate IPTV Unanimously Approved By Italian Senate * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Terramaris@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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In response to plenty of Italians opting to pirate Football (Soccer) matches, and so deny the government taxes on overpriced stadium food, drinks, and the like, the Italian government is making it so they can "order service providers, including network access providers, to disable access to content distributed illegally online, by 'blocking the resolution of domain names using the domain name system (DNS) and blocking the routing of network traffic to IP addresses uniquely intended for illicit activities.'"

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[-] Terramaris@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago

The Italians are doing a 1,2 punch. Punch 1 is the DNS blocking. Punch 2 is having the ISP also block. So if you are an Italian using an Italian internet provider, you won't be able to connect to the website.

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Depending on the hosting/ddos protection of the site in question they cannot do Punch 2. If they are using Cloudflare for example then the ip address is shared with a bunch of other sites.

[-] iso@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

So the only thing helping would be VPN + DNS change... not too easy, but not too hard either to be honest, but it will probably exclude a lot of people from access

[-] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

it will probably exclude a lot of people from access

Majority of the population I'd wager tbh, most of the general public is not tech-savvy enough to get around this.

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

But savvy enough to access the streams... right

[-] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Yes, correct. I'm not sure why you tried posting that as some sort of gotcha. It's much easier for a person to have accessed one of these streams than to change DNS and put on a VPN. While that is very easy for us and people in our circles, I think you're severely overestimating the technical prowess of the general population.

[-] Super_Stone@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Most of the time it is just searching for something like 'football match stream free'. Thats how I first got into piracy when I was twelve years old, only that I streamed anime instead.

[-] Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly, it's really easy to access a lot of the streams. There's little to zero technical knowledge needed so this law will likely be very effective against most viewers as much as that sucks.