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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by [deleted] »

Zafira wrote: post #23
seper8 wrote: post #15

Italy (and many other European countries) could be great and wealthy countries once again, if only it wasn't for the witless bureaucrats in charge. The only thing we seem to be innovative at is coming up with ridiculous amounts of useless regulation.

Isn't Italy also the poster child for an unstable parliamentary system?

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Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by meindnoch »

seper8 wrote: post #15

Italy (and many other European countries) could be great and wealthy countries once again, if only it wasn't for the witless bureaucrats in charge. The only thing we seem to be innovative at is coming up with ridiculous amounts of useless regulation.

There's a reason they are called the least of the great powers.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by simonh »

SSLy wrote: post #19
masklinn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah you fill it up with poison gas because you don’t negotiate with terrorists.

If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by lupusreal »

stavros wrote: post #38
SSLy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

What the fuck

It was pretty fucked up for the government to not coordinate an antidote with hospitals, but other than that, can anybody really be sure that another approach would have resulted in fewer hostage casualties? The terrorists had the whole place rigged with bombs. Considering the circumstance I think the gas was a pretty good idea with a poor followup.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by SSLy »

simonh wrote: post #44
SSLy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

This is widely regarded as putin's move to consolidate power.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by sorokod »

simonh wrote: post #44
SSLy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone misses the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

"Ryazan sugar" is worth a search by itself.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by wildrhythms »

esnard wrote: post #22
red_admiral wrote: post #14

At some point google should consider offering a VPN service :)

I just discovered that they discontinued their VPN back on June 20th. Somehow, I am not surprised.

It's still there, they changed the name to "VPN by Google". I'm sure some director got celebrated for that exciting 'new' product launch.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by 0x_rs »

"Piracy Shield" is an unmitigated disaster, a terrible idea everyone knew would be useless and harmful, but Serie A bribes make up for it. The next step has already been announced, going after VPNs. Yeah, you read that right, because of a stupid football league there's attempts undergoing to block commercial VPNs and managers instigating against them without even knowing what they are.

Italy is diving into the Internet dark ages, the past few years have been a disaster after another. Another recent ruling will attempt to limit access to adult-content and unrestricted social media usage only by using the government-mandated, privately-owned identification system (SPID) and sites not complying will be blocked. Europe as a whole is heading in this direction with other things such as ChatControl too.

Re: Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder

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Post by josefx »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #18
namaria wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes this sort of thing makes public cloud unreliable for mission critical systems

Why? Dumb government censorship could also block your private cloud as well.

It could, but it currently doesn't. Regulating and enforcing censorship is a lot harder when the offending material is not publicly accessible / easy to find. So even if you have offending content on your own private cloud, as opposed to have someone elses offending content on a shared public cloud, the censors would first have to find out about it.
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