Fuck Piracy Shield, Agcom and SP Tech Legal

If you live is Southern Europe you already know this is just another attempt to waste taxpayer money while claiming to "do something" about "piracy". Of course, software "piracy" has absolutely nothing in common with real piracy, it's just a term used to brand people downloading copyrighted stiff as dangerous criminals.

Found more context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;italys-piracy-shield-blocks-innocent-web-sites-and-makes-it-hard-for-them-to-appeal&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;italys-piracy-shield-blo...</a><p>&gt; 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.

<i>&quot;The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.&quot;</i> — John Gilmore<p>It&#x27;s a moral imperative to resist digital totalitarianism in all forms. Parents need to &quot;think of the children&quot;, not the government. The government also doesn&#x27;t need to first to invade everyone&#x27;s privacy as a tool to extract payment on behalf of a few megacorps.<p>PS&#x2F;TL;DR: Italy has a vibrant torrent culture. Probably not Hetzner, but I hope there&#x27;s a VPN torrent box as a service to help people avoid this stupid and dangerous censorship.