Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses

The conversation seems centered on Cloudflare and the broader piracy issue. The more interesting thing to me is that sports are in desperate need of their spotify&#x2F;netflix moment. My current best guess is that this isn&#x27;t possible because of existing longer term contracts they&#x27;ve had in place.<p>Currently streameast and such have the best UI for watching sports games and it&#x27;s not even close. Casual&#x2F;nascent fans don&#x27;t want to pay $100 a month for announcer-less access to sideline camera feeds. I don&#x27;t want to look up where every game is streaming that week. I don&#x27;t want a membership to peacock or whatever to see this one game I&#x27;m sorta interested in. No I don&#x27;t have cable anymore either. I don&#x27;t care to understand how &quot;blackouts&quot; work. It goes on an on.<p>It seems maliciously bad. And their numbers are showing it. From Gen Z&#x27;s low adoption rates, to lower rates of onboarding new fans and broadly reduced viewership in some sports like the NBA.<p>I don&#x27;t know a single person who pirates music these days.

While I do not support piracy, I am worried that the internet will get less and less free as tactics like this become more common.

We really need a competitor(s- ideally) to CF because it’s heavily centralising the internet and this highlights exactly why that is a problem.

The article says Cloudflare has tried to geoblock just certain IPs in Italy but what if Cloudflare tells Italy to stuff it and just withdraws from providing services to the country entirely?

No surprise with this, I wonder how long before this type of blocking is applied to all sites. That is what happens when large sites depend upon large companies like cloudflare.<p>Already some sites are blocking people that use VPNs, I could also see this expanding as time goes on.

The insanity of spain’s anti pirate laws continues to elevate every year. It’s puzzling to me what makes it so different even from other European countries

Trouble is this could easily lead to CDN, IP and proxy manipulation by state actors for repressive ends.

I wonder how it works that they are banned from &quot;routing internet traffic to IP addresses of all services present on the “Piracy Shield”. With a naive approach anyone who controlled the DNS records for a site present on the privacy shield could cause some serious mischief.

Let&#x27;s block all Italy and see how fast they backtrack :)