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New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures

New law to put ISPs in prison over piracy is betrayal, ISPs said this week. Google says it's an order to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.

Limits on the volume of domains and IP addresses previously agreed with ISPs, to prevent their systems collapsing and taking the rest of the Italian internet down as well, are suddenly no longer required. The new law isn’t unfixable, but given the stubborn approach to advice in recent months, not to mention attempts to mislead, there’s a tone of defiance among Italy’s blocking proponents; at times, perhaps even an air of the unstoppable. Antonio Bartolini, CTO and Chief Infrastructure Officer at ISP Connesi S.p.A.:[T]he relationship between AGCOM and the operators who have collaborated up to now and have taken on obligations not foreseen by their profession and which they have been forced to perform for free is only exacerbated.

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