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Massive Expansion of Italy's Piracy Shield Underway
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Walled Culture has been following closely Italy's poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block ac...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Walled Culture has been following closely Italy's poorly designed Piracy Shield system. It also raised an important new issue: the fact that Italy brought in this extreme legislation without notifying the European Commission under the so-called " TRIS" procedure, which allows others to comment on possible problems [...]. Even DNS and VPN providers will be required to block sites, a serious technical interference in the way the Internet operates, and a threat to people's privacy.
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