Italy’s fight against piracy has long been at the center of a sensational affair. Trust the system. The piracy shield continues to fail day after day.the net of major announcements. A number of mistakes have been made and the latest concerns in chronological order. Google Drive Block. An event so sensational that it seems simply ridiculous. Agcom could not escape the intervention. The result? There Dazn warns..
Blocking Dazn and Google Drive
A note from Agcom confirmed the warning against Dazn. The company, currently almost exempt from Serie A competition, has been at the center of bitter controversy for some time. From price increases to program and staff cuts, case by case Google Drive Block In using the piracy shield platform.
“Il Authority Council (…), in relation to the block report reported in error to Google Drive, Decided to warn Dazn.As an accredited reporter on the Piracy Shield platform, to ensure maximum due diligence and rigor in submitting blocking requests and gathering relevant evidence. Authority reserves the right to do so Take all relevant steps In case of non-compliance”.
He was chosen instead. Do not proceed against the Piracy Shield platform.. A proposal put forward by Commissioner Alyssa Giverny was rejected by the majority. Suspension of activity was envisaged, not termination, let’s be clear. The note concludes by highlighting the numbers (at least positive) of the control and blocking system: “Over 25,000 FQDNs and over 7,000 IPv4 disabled”.
Piracy Shield failure.
Blocking Google Drive is just that. The last clumsy and wrong stepOf the piracy shield platform, to say the least. The system was certainly not launched today, yet its inherent problems are clearly present.
The results obtained are in front of a system that evolves iteratively and boasts a large number of alternative plans. What is clear, however, is the huge gap in terms of deployable technical skills. Competitors are not equal to pirates.in fact. For this reason, people who live on IPTV and such systems are sleeping peacefully, without any discomfort.
What will be the revolution of this system? Previously, although viewing content through unauthorized systems was clearly illegal, every report had to go through a court. However, today is our goal. Stop broadcasting within 30 minutes.. A direct process that goes from reporting to action. However, considering many issues, it is clear that this speed has very high limits.
At the same time, anyone who wants to take advantage of IPTV can continue to do so, reducing the risk of fines. The latter, in fact, is yet to be launched and indeed, the system still seems to be immutable with a decent VPN.
How Piracy Shield works
Piracy Shield is very simple to operate and includes companies that closely own the copyright. We basically talk. Sky DisneyEspecially regarding live sporting events.
Anyone who works for one of these companies, and is authorized to do so, will be able to. Find a site that transmits content. without permission. It is entirely based on one’s own reasoning. What happens then? This is important. Upload the IP address to the Piracy Shield website. (or fully qualified domain name), with video evidence of infringement.
This is where a black hole is created, into which the entire platform can collapse. At the initial stage of the project the report was considered legitimate if it was shown that the site in question was used only to carry out illegal activities. However, an amendment to the omnibus law decree changed the definition. Now the need is that. The site is primarily used for illegal activities.. However, the text does not offer a specific definition for this “existing use”.
Internet service providers in Italy after the report was uploaded 30 minutes to block the site. Directly interested only in Bari 5 days for appeal. A paradoxical situation, as the person concerned does not receive the notification. You can only learn about the harm caused by linking to the site in question from Italy.
In this confusion of reports and blocks we can talk about lack of organization and lack of expertise. The Google Drive case amply demonstrates this. No official justification has yet been provided for the case, but we do know that the block affected drive.usercontent.google.com, a subdomain of google.com. It cannot be ruled out that an illegal address shared by Drive was found and after sending the report it was not known that the IP reported to Piracy Shield was Google’s CDN (content delivery service). network) was connected.
IP problem
The Google case is sensational, as mentioned, but it’s very special. Instead of a piracy shield, it has a flaw in its beating heart. You are clumsy by choosing to order. Blocking sites at the IP address level.
An IP address cannot yet be associated with a single computer. This is an introductory concept, which today seems largely outdated. It is in reality to deal with the system One IP corresponds to hundreds of thousands of servers.completely different from each other. The professor explained. Stefano Zaneirowho teaches cybersecurity at the Polytechnic University of Milan, and is among the leading experts who have widely criticized the new anti-piracy law.
He also highlighted how CDN systems also exist, exploiting IP addresses shared by thousands of different websites. Additionally: “Some home providers use a single IP, but behind it are hundreds of thousands of users. Almost all IPs are temporary and are reassigned to different people at different times.
End of Piracy Shield
You really have this clear feeling. The entire Piracy Shield structure will soon collapse.. Too noisy given negligible results. Sooner or later, for example, a major problem will need to be addressed, namely the absence of appropriate forms of initial control and safeguards.
Too much power has been put in the hands of private individuals, to report and block a site. It is a net of gross errors and significant economic loss, without paying any tangible results. Even Agcom, for now, has limited itself to a reprimand.
The existing system is not being adhered to and above all the facts are being deliberately ignored. That there is a subculture in Italy of why not pay if possible, but there is also the issue of rights and costs.
Guaranteed exemptions, such as for 7 Serie A matches per week in Dazn, have led to a significant increase in costs. Approx The subscriptions are revised from year to year.amid common disputes.
gave The situation of piracy has worsened in the last two years. And this is not a coincidence at all. An investigation by Fapav, the Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content, identified how the illegal use of sports content, in particular, 26% increase in 2022. compared to last year.
It is no coincidence that in 2022 he started one. Price revision campaign An upward trend that continued, adding to the burden on fans’ finances. So the conclusion is that A push towards piracy And “pizzotto,” also that of fear and morality, They were not counted among the users of these services. illegal
However, this topic is not even touched in important offices. What is done is a roar against the citizens. He did for example. Massimiliano CapitanioCommissioner of Agcom, who in April spoke of an infamous anti-piracy shield campaign by anonymous users.
It previously refuted the assumption that pages sharing the IP addresses of illegal sites pose a risk of censorship. However, he now acknowledges the seriousness of blocking Google Drive but also reiterates how it’s all predictable as we find ourselves facing a “fire of devastating proportions”.
However, all institutions are repeating the same mistakes. There are an estimated 2 million active illegal subscriptions to paid IPTV channels. For a turnover of around 200 million euros per year. What if, instead of hunting down these citizens, we tried to get the clearest part of them back on the “right path”? Some areas support organized crime more than others because it seeks concrete solutions, such as in the workplace. From this point of view, politics should create jobs and not threaten illegal workers because they have no alternative. The same is true of piracy. Let’s think about an economically fair system, so that this form of entertainment can be re-popularized and no longer elitist.