#piracyshield — Public Fediverse posts

A few weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about Hadopi, France’s infamous copyright enforcement mechanism. The so-called “graduated response” – aka “three strikes and you are out” – has been around for over 15 years now, has cost French taxpayers a fortune, and has never achieved any of its aims. As the Walled Culture post suggested, the latest court ruling might finally put the […]

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

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https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/research-italys-piracy-shield-is-just-as-big-a-disaster-as-everyone-predicted/

EU prepares to give new rights to live streaming sites, to the detriment of the Internet and its users

At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the dispiriting saga of how the EU Copyright Directive came into being. It began in early 2013 with the usual “stakeholder dialogue”, in which the European Commission sought the views of the various constituencies affected. It generated an unprecedentedly large response that was surprising given the dry and […]

#blocking #cloudflare #consultation #dns #eu #euCopyrightDirective #euipo #europeanCommission #germany #italy #laliga #liveStreaming #piracyShield #spain #sportsStreaming #transparency #US #vpns #wipo

https://walledculture.org/eu-prepares-to-give-new-rights-to-live-streaming-sites-to-the-detriment-of-the-internet-and-its-users/

Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws

Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly-designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use that unchecked power to shut down critical […]

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https://walledculture.org/massive-expansion-of-italys-piracy-shield-underway-despite-growing-criticism-of-its-flaws/

ISPs ‘Betrayed’ Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible

https://torrentfreak.com/isps-betrayed-over-pirate-site-blocking-threats-the-reckoning-will-be-invisible-241005/

#OpinionArticles #PiracyShield #amendments #SerieA #AGCOM #italy

The new Hadopi? Piracy Shield blocks innocent Web sites and makes it hard for them to appeal

Italy’s newly-installed Piracy Shield system, put in place by the country’s national telecoms regulator, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM), is already failing in significant ways. One issue became evident in February, when the VPN provider AirVPN announced that it would no longer accept users resident […]

#agcom #airvpn #appealProcess #cloudflare #HADOPI #isp #italy #netBlocks #overblocking #piracyShield #torrentfreak #transparency #vpn #youtube

https://walledculture.org/the-new-hadopi-piracy-shield-blocks-innocent-web-sites-and-makes-it-hard-for-them-to-appeal/

Italy’s new Piracy Shield has just gone into operation and is already harming human rights there

Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly-named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to control what is available online, no court orders required. Piracy Shield went live in December, and has just issued its first […]

#agcom #airvpn #italy #netBlocks #piracyShield #privacy #security #vpn

https://walledculture.org/italys-new-piracy-shield-has-just-gone-into-operation-and-is-already-harming-human-rights-there/