Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly-named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to control what is available online, no court orders required. Piracy Shield went live in December, and has just issued its first …

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Its literally a violation of the EU human rights agreement…

      Is it? In Portugal there have been a similar law for years and nobody cares apparently. It isn’t as wide as the Italian one, it just says ISPs are required to block access to websites a govt. entity lists.

      Also no company will comply with that shitshows ridiculous orders.

      Are you sure? Think about it… “All VPN and open DNS services must also comply with blocking orders”. A VPN provider can’t legally sell their services in Italy unless they comply. The best part is: since the govt is blocking websites they can also block providers who doesn’t play according to their rules :)

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    People should be well aware of expatriates and how to become one as well as having emergency funds for it if their country has signs of turning dystopian

    I know it may feel hard leaving your home country for some but would you rather stay and be forced to participate under dystopian laws or leave for a better country

    • Letstakealook@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I learned that I’m essentially trapped in my country without massive amounts of money or a rare skill set. I have neither. I’ll just have to ride the fascist wave out if they succeed.

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Fucking sports. Sky and DAZN have such a stranglehold on sports. You wanna watch sportball? Pay up.

    Professional sports and the companies that own the leagues are a total racket. Makes me hate that it’s such a large part of global culture. Support your local minor leagues!

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I bet VPN providers in privacy respecting countries are seeing a large increase in subscribers from Italy now.

    • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I’ve been using quad 9 dns for years and torrenting without issues.

      These laws are made just to make happy the people getting rich with calcio streamings and alike. IPTV and stuff is enforced, for the rest it’s just business as usual

      • retro@infosec.pubEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’m sure your aware but for people who aren’t… Only changing your DNS doesn’t hide your traffic, only your DNS query. They can’t see you are resolving 1337x.to but they CAN see you access 104.31.16.118. This is why a VPN is important as it stops your ISP from seeing all of your traffic.

        • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Yep, good to note for other people. I’m aware but here torrenting is kinda allowed. If you do it for yourself and without any profit motive you can just keep going without any kind of issue

          The dns change is just to not have to use proxies to access stuff like libgen and piratebay in my case :)

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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          9 months ago

          DNS as a protocol is in general clear text. Your provider can see what you query regardless.

            • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Root servers don’t support that. Nothing would stop governments from telling all ISPs in the country to block all DNS servers that don’t comply.

              Edit: Missed a word.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Or not. “All VPN and open DNS services must also comply with blocking orders”. A VPN provider can’t legally sell their services in Italy unless they comply. The best part is: since the govt is blocking websites they can also block providers who doesn’t play according to their rules :)

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’m not an Italian citizen and I don’t live there.

        Their laws do not apply to me. An Italian citizen or resident can go online and buy vpn service from me. There is not law im subjected to that says I can’t sell vpn services to Italians.

        • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          An Italian citizen or resident can go online and buy vpn service from me. There is not law im subjected to that says I can’t sell vpn services to Italians.

          This isn’t true. If you don’t comply with the other law regarding the website blocks then the Italian govt will politely ask you to. If your business happens to be on another EU member state they might even try to get your local authorities involved in the asking. Either way, if you don’t comply or they can’t reach you (cause you’re ouside the EU) they’ll proceed to block your website / domains in Italy and no more business for you.

        • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Sure but you’d basically be scamming them as the VPN service wouldn’t work because even if you sent them the VPN installer and login it wouldn’t connect.

          • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Why wouldn’t it connect?

            Unless they block my specific IP address then? It will work. And if they block my ip address, then I can just get a new one pretty easily.