Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content
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Wow, that's way worse than I imagined. No wonder people watch illegal streams!
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What nonsense. If I want my origin to tor to start with a VPN then I will and I'll be more anonymous because of it.
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Tor essentially
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China is a whole other can of worms. It's not so much the firewall, but the regime.
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They will, at best, mildly inconvenienced the pirates.
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I've been pirating a long time. Not once have I been inconvenienced by any anti-Piracy measure. There's always another way around.
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Can’t you just vpn to another vpn ?
Won't even have to. Just use any VPN provider outside of Italy that doesn't have to comply with Italian law. lol.
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I still don't have an understanding whether this meaningfully downgrades Tor's security. Because if there was no extra harm, it would be helpful when bridges are blocked frequently, but some VPN services (or just your own VPS setup) have a better obfuscation.
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Making something illegal and actually stopping it are two different things. Also see: drugs.
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Take this with a grain of salt, I am by no means qualified to say anything on this topic with total certainty.
All a VPN does is encrypt traffic between you and the VPN. The VPN Hub you're connected to has to unencrypted your outbound traffic, fulfilling those requests, and then encrypting inbound traffic back to you. A VPN obscures traffic by allowing you to make your requests from a different location, where thousands of others also do it, all while hiding who is making any requests it fulfills, and hiding your activity from your ISP with encryption. A good VPN will also not keep logs of anything it does, and will have options to connect to Hubs outside of five eyes countries.
This would mean that while the VPN might not know who is making what requests, they would know what those requests are, so they could blacklist illegal content. All this to say a VPN >VPN >VPN > VPN still has a final VPN that has to make the request, and they will know where the request is going and what its for. But unless that final VPN company or Hub is actually inside of Italy they have no jurisdiction.
The real problem with this method is A) who determines what is blacklisted B) How do you enforce this blacklist C) How do you make the blacklist grow as fast as pirates spread out. This is a stupid law that wouldn't do anything even if the entire world got on board.
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Having to find a way around is an inconvenience.
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lol not really. Not a single piracy measure I've ever come across was anything more than a 3-5 minute Google fix away.
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Sounds like a possible violation of EU rights. Similar practices have cost other governments dearly in the past.
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there is proxies, which arnt vpn they will just switch to those.
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mullvad doesn't know where you live nor do they care.
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I don’t get sports fanatics…
Most people just want to watch a match of their home town/favourite team maybe once a week. This is very moderate, what's so bad about that? However in order to do that they either have to either spend an absurd amount of money to get access to all matches, or spend a bit less money to play lottery and hope the match they wanted to watch gets selected.
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Why tf are countries with a suffering middle and lower classes targeting them especially?
To squeeze one more monthly subscription out of them?
To just make then skip the culture they can't afford? -
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Yep
It's like when YouTube finds a way to show you an ad, and then you go to ublock and update filters and boom fixed.
Oh no Italy is requiring something unenforceable, hopefully nobody from other countries ignores this and provides VPN access unhindered.
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In the nicest possible way, what you're both describing are minor inconveniences.
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Even North Korea can’t stop pirating completely.
