A bill that will compel service providers to block IPTV providers, no matter how they are involved, will soon become law in Italy.
In response to plenty of Italians opting to pirate Football (Soccer) matches, and so deny the government taxes on overpriced stadium food, drinks, and the like, the Italian government is making it so they can “order service providers, including network access providers, to disable access to content distributed illegally online, by ‘blocking the resolution of domain names using the domain name system (DNS) and blocking the routing of network traffic to IP addresses uniquely intended for illicit activities.’”
You could easily avoid this by just changing your DNS server to something hosted outside of Italy like Google or CloudFlare right? Seems trivially easy to circumvent, for someone who’s already going out of their way to pirate media.
The Italians are doing a 1,2 punch. Punch 1 is the DNS blocking. Punch 2 is having the ISP also block. So if you are an Italian using an Italian internet provider, you won’t be able to connect to the website.
Depending on the hosting/ddos protection of the site in question they cannot do Punch 2. If they are using Cloudflare for example then the ip address is shared with a bunch of other sites.
So the only thing helping would be VPN + DNS change… not too easy, but not too hard either to be honest, but it will probably exclude a lot of people from access
Yes, correct. I’m not sure why you tried posting that as some sort of gotcha. It’s much easier for a person to have accessed one of these streams than to change DNS and put on a VPN. While that is very easy for us and people in our circles, I think you’re severely overestimating the technical prowess of the general population.
Most of the time it is just searching for something like ‘football match stream free’. Thats how I first got into piracy when I was twelve years old, only that I streamed anime instead.
Exactly, it’s really easy to access a lot of the streams. There’s little to zero technical knowledge needed so this law will likely be very effective against most viewers as much as that sucks.
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It’s a very authoritarian law, this is some kind of thing that probably opens the road for more closeness -.-
You could easily avoid this by just changing your DNS server to something hosted outside of Italy like Google or CloudFlare right? Seems trivially easy to circumvent, for someone who’s already going out of their way to pirate media.
The Italians are doing a 1,2 punch. Punch 1 is the DNS blocking. Punch 2 is having the ISP also block. So if you are an Italian using an Italian internet provider, you won’t be able to connect to the website.
Depending on the hosting/ddos protection of the site in question they cannot do Punch 2. If they are using Cloudflare for example then the ip address is shared with a bunch of other sites.
So the only thing helping would be VPN + DNS change… not too easy, but not too hard either to be honest, but it will probably exclude a lot of people from access
Majority of the population I’d wager tbh, most of the general public is not tech-savvy enough to get around this.
But savvy enough to access the streams… right
Yes, correct. I’m not sure why you tried posting that as some sort of gotcha. It’s much easier for a person to have accessed one of these streams than to change DNS and put on a VPN. While that is very easy for us and people in our circles, I think you’re severely overestimating the technical prowess of the general population.
Most of the time it is just searching for something like ‘football match stream free’. Thats how I first got into piracy when I was twelve years old, only that I streamed anime instead.
Exactly, it’s really easy to access a lot of the streams. There’s little to zero technical knowledge needed so this law will likely be very effective against most viewers as much as that sucks.
See, this is why I’ve been boycotting sports for years. If they want to act as a luxury, so be it