""the Piracy Shield raises a significant number of concerns which can inadvertently affect legitimate online services, primarily due to the potential for overblocking." The letter said that in October 2024, "Google Drive was mistakenly blocked by the Piracy Shield system, causing a three-hour blackout for all Italian users, while 13.5 percent of users were still blocked at the IP level, and 3 percent were blocked at the DNS level after 12 hours.""
"The Italian system "aims to automate the blocking process by allowing rights holders to submit IP addresses directly through the platform, following which ISPs have to implement a block," the CCIA said. "Verification procedures between submission and blocking are not clear, and indeed seem to be lacking. Additionally, there is a total lack of redress mechanisms for affected parties, in case a wrong domain or IP address is submitted and blocked.""
The Piracy Shield system risks blocking legitimate online services due to automated submission of IPs by rights holders and weak verification. Google Drive experienced a mistaken three-hour blackout in October 2024, with substantial residual IP and DNS-level blocks lasting hours. Submission-to-block verification procedures appear unclear or lacking, and there is no redress mechanism for wrongly blocked domains or IPs. A 30-minute mandatory blocking window severely limits ISP verification. The platform's developer ties to Lega Serie A raise conflict-of-interest and transparency concerns. Italian ISP groups say the law forces filtering that collides with individual freedoms and conflicts with EU conduit exemptions.
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