Il giorno lun 14 apr 2025 alle ore 17:20 Raúl Martínez via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> ha scritto:
The reason is that a couple of local court orders allowed LA LIGA (sports association responsible for administering the two professional football leagues in Spain) to provide ISPs with a list of IP addresses that host soccer piracy sites to be taken down in a short period of time, even when the football match is taken place.
At least this was court ordered. Here in Italy the Serie A league donated a software platform to AGCOM ( Telecommunication ministry) and congress passed a law obligating providers to block IPs and domains within 30 minutes of publication using the platform. The kicker is that the copyright holders themselves are the ones to insert the IPs and Domains to block. No control, no court order, just sign up and prove you are a copyright holder and you can block IPs and domains. If you google piracy shield there is all kinds of information on what has happened in the last 18 months regarding platform setup, blocking of all kinds of legitimate content etc and CCIA sent a letter to the European commission questioning the legality of the law and system. Italy is pushing ahead and expanding the system to include more copyright holders, ie not just for live events, and expanding the size of the database to include more IPs and domains. Brian