American Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare is pushing back against increasing calls to broaden pirate site blocking in the EU. The company notes that since similar efforts in Spain and Italy have resulted in extensive collateral damage, there's a need for more transparency and constructive collaboration on the anti-piracy front. Cloudflare also wants rightsholders to pay for their overblocking mistakes.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In Italy they are aiming to block not only soccer streams but any audiovisual content. And they are threatening to fine people using the sites, unlike before, when only the site owners could be prosecuted.

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I remember reading a story about how the North Koreans would dig tunnels under the border. It took years and the ultimate goal was to dig all the way to Seoul. I remember feeling bad for all the time and man hours the North Korean state wasted on this stupid protect. This reminds me a lot of that.

[–] Emi@ani.social 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are they gonna do mandatory full system checks of your pc or force your internet provider to hand over all your data? And go over every single torrent to make sure it's not pirated?

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go figure. Probably they are going to monitor traffic somehow to see if you visit certain websites and if you stay on them for too long, they flag you as a pirate. I'm not concerned, I browse the internet through a vpn.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago

Encrypted traffic and VPN use will be the next thing that flags you as a pirate and triggers a bigger search...

Good luck!