The theme of The fight against piracyMore relevant than ever, especially with regard to sports content. It’s a battle that Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo has created himself. Broadcaster Requests. The issue has been constantly debated for months, without ever raising any doubts about the pricing policy implemented over the past few years (and the impact it has had on the resurgence of piracy). The final chapter of this story took place in classrooms. Court of Milan. The appeal presented by the Serie A League was fully accepted. Cloudflare Inc.
War against piracy, historical order
The Serie A and Serie B leagues took part in the proceedings, ordered by a court in Milan Cloudflare To stop your supply Services for pirate sites. However, there is an even more important aspect.
There is talk about the obligation to communicate data about users and users involved in various illegal streaming of illegal content, as they are provided without the permission of the broadcasters concerned. An order that clearly confirms Cloudflare’s role. Technical arbitratorexploiting the ability to intercept various government blocks.
We report the exact details below. Approval of levy:
- Stop DNS resolution – Data traffic cannot be delivered to IP addresses that have been blocked by Agcom’s Piracy Shield system.
- Stop providing services. CDN, authoritative DNS and reverse proxies – this is what pirate sites take advantage of to transmit copyright protected content.
- to adopt Technical and organizational measures – Company effort is required to make illegal content inaccessible to users.
- Communicate data and information Related to Users and Accounts – The process of identifying individual subjects will also include connection log files, IP addresses and generated traffic and session duration data.
Piracy, penalties for users
If Cloudflare fails to act quickly, a response is expected. Penalty from 10,000 euros per day. This is an important precedent for the fight against software piracy. The Milan court claims that the services offered have caused copyright infringement by third parties. In fact, what is punished is the company’s inaction, which is considered voluntary.
The celebration was expected. Luigi De Siervowho, commenting on this sentence, pointed out that it only confirmed the validity of the reasons stated. Full acceptance of the complaint submitted, he explained, will now begin a new phase in the fight against piracy.
The beneficiaries of IPTV are those abandoned by consumers.”Indelible marks“If the 13 piracy defendants were recently acquitted of not having committed a criminal offense (administrative fine of 154 euros), De Cervo promises very serious consequences.
gave Judge Roberta Maggio He explained in his sentence: “There are no elements to prove that the defendants participated in the production and circulation of the IT media, nor did they put them on the market. It is clear that It appears that possession of the IT media was intended purely for personal purposes by the purchaser for personal use and not in return for placing it on the market, which is only an administrative offense and not theft. The offense of receiving goods.”
All this points to a general judicial complexity in dealing with these cases in the near future. However, the CEO of Serie A did not give up: “We are at a turning point. The service providers have been punished and now The end user will be easily identified.. Action will be taken against him as per law.”
