Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content
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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.
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“Italian organized crime groups receipts have been estimated to reach 7–9% of Italy's GDP.”
But I guess pirating books is a more pressing problem.
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You seem very intent on convincing multiple people we are more inconvenienced than we feel.
I think you are missing the feeling of smug superiority that comes from defeating the feeble multi-million dollar attempts to punish us...with 5 mouse clicks. So on the surface level it might be an inconvenience, but you step into the actual activity and boom, we're telling these dumbasses to fuck off. And that's fun.
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So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
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Because they don't fight back unlike the billionaires who threaten to take jobs away / donate to their political rivals, the criminals who blackmail or threaten bodily harm (since this is Italy we're taking about), and the individuals who fall into both categories.
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[Speculation]
They'll probably get a list of hashes from major copyright holders. So the biggest torrents won't work, but you'll still be able to pirate small-time artists.
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Tor is bad for piracy because it's designed for low bandwidth applications. Maybe I2P?
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Not if you're MetaFace it isn't.
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But the individual network packets are usually at most 1500 byes long, and applications encrypt the content. Hashing doesn't prevent jack squat. It's more likely to be DNS + IP blocks
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How would a hash help? The dns just gives you info to resolve the destination, not the content.
They would need to map the trackers most likely
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I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, for some reason some people just want to ignore the meaning of words. I'm not saying anyone feels super inconvenienced either, like I said they're minor inconveniences, but they're there and they grow.
Frankly I couldn't care less about sticking it to the man, I've been around the scene for 30 odd years at this point and I don't think that's ever been a motivator for me. I do like things that make it more convenient, more reliable and increase selection - I don't like things that make it more difficult, no matter how small.
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Yes.
But billionaires fighting back is just issuing an order for someone professional to do so in their behalf, themselves risking basically nothing.
Middle and lower classes need to do to work, do their chores, fight stress, organise, research, maybe take a loan to pay for legal costs, etc.
Someone might say the system is rigged.
