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Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
On Saturday evening Google Drive went dark for millions of Italian users after the service's domain name was added to Piracy Shield.
When reporting on the Cloudflare debacle in February, we included commentary from Giorgio Bonfiglio, Principal Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services. Those hoping to access Google Drive were subject to domain hijacking instead, with requests diverted to a blocking page hosted at different IP addresses depending on the ISP involved; 195.162.95.240 [Sky] and 34.110.214.49 [TIM], for example. The domain/IP address block began to take effect a little time after 6pm and as the image below shows, three smaller ‘downtime peaks’ were followed by an almost total degradation of service around 9pm.
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