Feels like we are really being targeted lately. So frustrating to hear this is a global priority with all the significant issues affecting humanity that these efforts could be directed towards.
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024
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Imagine if these agencies investigated crimes.
clearly, they are underworked if they have time for this bullshit.
100% corporate law enforcement.
In Italy there's a distopia called "Piracy Shield" that is banhamming random sites (for a day also Google Drive was banned WTF). Is an IP ban system, so you cannot escape changing DNS, is directly controlled by Lega Calcio; they can ban an IP for no reason in about 30 minutes. (Fun fact: it's supported by a law that requires ALL VPNs of the whole world follow the ban LOL)
So the Italian government gave to a private company the power to virtually shutdown the internet in Italy.
I can't imagine they will be able to enforce that part about VPNs...
Maybe they could with those popular VPNs like, for example, NordVPN. I hope they don't IP block such VPNs. In italy before Piracy Shield there wasn't a strong law enforcement, for example people used torrents for years (but also now) with no VPNs at all, and I don't know nobody that has received a complain letter or similar; but the Lega Calcio is a strong corporation, dimostrated to be stronger than gonverment itselfs, in some cases. All this circus because of soccer.
Internet has changed.
This operation probably cost ten times whatever the streaming/tv companies said they lost.
Corporate law enforcement corps.
My Dutch Usenet provider has been DMCAing a lot more content lately. Seems EU is putting quite a bit of investment into anti piracy lately.
Only in the Western part of the EU. Try moving your operations to the eastern part of the EU and see what happens.