Why would Italy have anything called Piracy Shield? Is it located in the West or in China?
The real question is: how did you come to believe 'the West' does not censor?
Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
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Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#32If you are connecting from an Italian ISP to https://mil04s43-in-f1.1e100.net you're going to be greeted by a message from AGCOM telling you the website has been used to spread copyrighted content. This already happened with a Cloudflare CDN before. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/blocking-of-my-website-vi... https://imgur.com/a/EKFHROX
How can they do that with HTTPS though? HTTP sure they can happily MITM and redirect, but with HTTPS you need a valid cert.
Your browser shows a TLS warning saying that the certificate doesn't match. If you override it, it brings you to that page.
This is not a DNS block, the IPs are owned by Google, Italian ISPs are forced to forward the traffic of a blocked IP to AGCOM's servers.
Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#33Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. That they'd be blocked at some point is completely unsurprising. As it is, I have to explain to people regularly that clicking on "sponsored" links, or whatever Google calls them, doesn't work because we have to block "googleadservices.com" due to their…
> Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. Honestly I find it incredibly silly companies are still sending out notices to take down copyrighted content. Give up already. The battle is lost and now it's purely a waste of time and money.
It's also a question of IP valuation.
Media companies have IP as an asset on their books. Battling piracy is a means to defend the valuation they attach to that IP.
Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. Honestly I find it incredibly silly companies are still sending out notices to take down copyrighted content. Give up already. The battle is lost and now it's purely a waste of time and money.
The pirates lost, I know one other person besides me that collects movies to watch offline outside of subscription services. The legal actions against free streaming sites prevents any serious competitor to Netflix, Disney-Hulu etc, which are hugely valuable properties.
Pirates kinda lost when Netflix was more or less the only game in town.
Now with 10+ streaming services gatekeeping their content piracy is likely to be back on the rise
Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#35Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. Honestly I find it incredibly silly companies are still sending out notices to take down copyrighted content. Give up already. The battle is lost and now it's purely a waste of time and money.
It's also a question of IP valuation. Media companies have IP as an asset on their books. Battling piracy is a means to defend the valuation they attach to that IP.
It's wasted money though. They're literally just losing more money on whatever money they think they lost due to piracy.
Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#37Companies like Google and Cloudflare just really don't care that they host malicious content and have stopped taking meaningful action to take down reported content. That they'd be blocked at some point is completely unsurprising. As it is, I have to explain to people regularly that clicking on "sponsored" links, or whatever Google calls them, doesn't work because we have to block "googleadservices.com" due to their…
well big companies use thousands of virus scanner, so this shouldn't be a big issue.
Those are used for checklist compliance, not to protect from actual viruses.
Re: Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pirates lost, I know one other person besides me that collects movies to watch offline outside of subscription services. The legal actions against free streaming sites prevents any serious competitor to Netflix, Disney-Hulu etc, which are hugely valuable properties.
The pirates remain triumphant and unshakeable. Why? Because you can go to any number of torrent sites you want right now and download anything you want, and as long as it's not too obscure it will probably not take more than 10 or 2 minutes. Trying to shut down piracy is playing whack-a-mole with one hammer, 10,000 moles and 100,000,000 holes. > The legal actions against free streaming sites The only people using tho…
> The only people using those are people too scared or lacking in knowledge of how to download.
That's most people.
Also, most laws aren't perfectly enforced; part of the reason for disproportionately high penalties is to create that fear.