Fuck Piracy Shield, Agcom and SP Tech Legal

by elsombrero • 2 years ago

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Terr_• 2 years ago

Found more context: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/19/italys-piracy-shield-blo...

Italy’s newly-installed Piracy Shield system, put in place by the country’s national telecoms regulator, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM), is already failing in significant ways.

petre• 2 years ago

If you live is Southern Europe you already know this is just another attempt to waste taxpayer money while claiming to "do something" about "piracy". Of course, software "piracy" has absolutely nothing in common with real piracy, it's just a term used to brand people downloading copyrighted stiff as dangerous criminals.

out-of-ideas• 2 years ago

it always reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701785 (edit couldnt find it from years-past but this link is basically what i remember)

companies are rolling in profits, and they spend their profits (instead of making more easily available content) on DRMs, lobbiest, ect to squeeze out every ounce of money from everywhere they can.. cuz they can afford it

1letterunixname• 2 years ago

"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." — John Gilmore

It's a moral imperative to resist digital totalitarianism in all forms. Parents need to "think of the children", not the government. The government also doesn't need to first to invade everyone's privacy as a tool to extract payment on behalf of a few megacorps.

PS/TL;DR: Italy has a vibrant torrent culture. Probably not Hetzner, but I hope there's a VPN torrent box as a service to help people avoid this stupid and dangerous censorship.

ls612• 2 years ago

Wouldn’t using Cloudflare or Google DNS solve this?

pjmlp• 2 years ago

All the Mediterrean countries have it.

It used to be quite common to get software at street bazaars, and during the 8/16 bit home computer era, even the "original" stuff bought at computer shops were hand made copies of tapes and floppies.

One of the "jobs" on the Demoscene groups was to distribute new material.

Fuck Piracy Shield, Agcom and SP Tech Legal

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