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.
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
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.
See, this is why I’ve been boycotting sports for years. If they want to act as a luxury, so be it
It’s a very authoritarian law, this is some kind of thing that probably opens the road for more closeness -.-
