Piracy Block Reversed For Tech Site That Reported Site-Blocking WorkaroundsAndy Maxwell, 16 May 10:39 AM The Piracy Shield blocking controversy on t
 | The Piracy Shield blocking controversy on the boil since February has shown that overblocking in Italy either doesn't exist, is someone else's fault, or was too brief to be considered important. To that background, news this week that Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has nullified one of its own piracy blocking orders is somewhat unexpected. The finer details reveal that the background to the original blocking order gives cause for concern for entirely different reasons than those that caused the retraction. Tech Site Unblocked After Appeal to Regional Court Giardiniblog.it describes itself as a tech information site. It's been online for over 18 years and with around one million visits per month, most of them from inside Italy, it can consider itself a success. This week, in a celebratory blog post, the site's editorial staff "expressed great satisfaction" after a legal appeal filed at a regional court prompted AGCOM to cancel a site-blocking order that rendered Giardiniblog mostl...Read More | As reported yesterday, the Australian government has just released the 2023 edition of its Consumer Survey on Online Copyright Infringement. The survey found that 41% of respondents consumed at least one item of pirated content (TV, movies, music, games, or live sports) from an illegal source in 2023, up from the 39% reported in the previous year. When compared to how many citizens resorted to pirate sources in 2015, the figures for 2023 show improvement almost right across the board. That's to be expected when considering how desperate many Australians were for new content until Netflix finally launched in March 2015. Australians' Use of VPNs Such were the content-related frustrations before Netflix's official launch, many citizens had already become familiar with VPNs and custom DNS settings because that allowed them to subscribe to the platform in other regions. Today, those same tools work in exactly the same way and according to the government's latest survey, almost a quarte...Read More |
Are you looking for a VPN service? TorrentFreak sponsor NordVPN has some excellent offers. | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment