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Italian Pirate IPTV Customers Risk a 5,000 Euro Fine Starting August 8, 2023 (torrentfreak.com) 45

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy's brand new anti-piracy law has just received full approval from telecoms regulator AGCOM. In a statement issued Thursday, AGCOM noted its position "at the forefront of the European scene in combating online piracy." The new law comes into force on August 8 and authorizes nationwide ISP blocking of live events and enables the state to issue fines of up to 5,000 euros to users of pirate streams .

In a statement published Thursday, AGCOM welcomed the amendments to Online Copyright Enforcement regulation 680/13/CONS, which concern measures to counter the illegal distribution of live sports streams, as laid out in Resolution 189/23/CONS. The new provisions grant AGCOM the power to issue "dynamic injunctions" against online service providers of all kinds, a privilege usually reserved for judges in Europe's highest courts. The aim is to streamline blocking measures against unlicensed IPTV services, with the goal of rendering them inaccessible across all of Italy.

"With such measures, it will be possible to disable access to pirated content in the first 30 minutes of the event broadcast by blocking DNS resolution of domain names and blocking the routing of network traffic to IP addresses uniquely intended for illicit activities," AGCOM says. "With this amendment, in perfect synchrony with the changes introduced by Parliament, AGCOM is once again at the forefront of the European scene in combating online piracy activity," says AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio.

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Italian Pirate IPTV Customers Risk a 5,000 Euro Fine Starting August 8, 2023

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  • by Opportunist ( 166417 ) on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:21AM (#63723580)

    Sales of VPN access curiously spikes in Italy.

    • Sales of VPN access curiously spikes in Italy.

      Yea, and some collateral damage may be the blocking of VPNs which would harm legitimate users.

      • Can I be there when the Italian government gets skinned by their industry for essentially gutting their remote work capability and thus their competitiveness?

        • Italy would not block all VPN by IP, they would negotiate a solution with the VPN providers; one example is to limit contracts to legally established companies (not individuals). Some places have similar regulations for the likes of AirBnBn, homeowners have to include a licence number (the government run a script on the AirBnB website or gets the data from them; checks that each licenced user does not pass some maximum limits).

          Of course there are workarounds, one could create a company just for the purpose

          • Rent a server at a hoster abroad, install a VPN service...

            • They don't need a solution that works 100%. They need a solution that reduces their problem by 80%, and in 2-4 years they will re-evaluate their options and try improve quantitatively. Public policy is a matter of choosing which imperfect solution should solve the largest number of old problems while creating the smallest number of new problems, and re-evaluating after a while. It does not have to be perfect at first try, it generally does not have to be perfect at all either (with few exceptions; protectin

              • It doesn't. I give the whole shit about a day before the first "How to set up your own VPN abroad the fool proof way" Video on YouTube. Complete with Patreon link in case you feel generous to someone who lets you continue watch your movies and shows for free.

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  • So... was there a huge revenue spike after they did it?

    • Let me doubt it. My guess is that the bulk of IPTV viewers on pirate streams doesn't really care about most of that content. They get it in a package deal. Most will simply not watch the channels and watch other content
  • How perfect (Score:4, Insightful)

    by blastard ( 816262 ) on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:37AM (#63723914)

    "this amendment, in perfect synchrony with the changes"

    You gotta love it when politicians use such conclusory statements. When I see something like that, it is apparent they are trying to paper over some defect. Ignore the Man behind the curtain and obey the Almighty Oz.

  • Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:09AM (#63723976)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • It's amusing to see how highly this industry values itself. I wonder how much more drama we have in store as a result of it's death throes.

    I no longer pirate since there's nothing worth watching anymore. There's no value to it. Any of it. The quicker the whole thing dries up and dies, the better.

    Can't wait for A.I. written/directed and produced shows because they can't afford human talent anymore. Those yachts don't pay for themselves, you know...Bill Burr was right. He just picked the wrong boat. ;)

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