cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoItaly to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated contentwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down12
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minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 months agoSo will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months ago[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.
minus-squarekiagam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoHow 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
So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
[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.
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