"Piracy Shield is an unsupervised electronic portal through which an unidentified set of Italian media companies can submit websites and IP addresses that online service providers registered with Piracy Shield are then required to block within 30 minutes. The system has no judicial oversight, transparency, due process, or redress for erroneous blocking."
"Global connectivity is too important to be governed by 'black boxes' with 30-minute deadlines that result in widespread overblocking with no means of redress. Researchers at the University of Twente found hundreds of legitimate websites unknowingly affected by blocking in what they called a conservative lower-bound estimate."
"AGCOM rejected Cloudflare's arguments when it issued the fine, saying that the required blocking would impose no risk on legitimate websites because the targeted IP addresses were all uniquely intended for copyright infringement. AGCOM also said Piracy Shield had disabled over 65,000 domain names and about 14,000 IP addresses in the previous two years."
Cloudflare received a fine from Italy's AGCOM for non-compliance with Piracy Shield, a system requiring internet service providers to block websites and IP addresses within 30 minutes based on submissions from Italian media companies. The system operates through an unsupervised portal managed by SP Tech, a firm representing Serie A and other copyright holders, with no judicial oversight, transparency, or due process for erroneous blocks. Cloudflare argues this creates widespread overblocking of legitimate websites with no redress mechanism. AGCOM claims targeted IP addresses are uniquely intended for copyright infringement and notes the system has disabled over 65,000 domains and 14,000 IP addresses. However, documented failures include mistaken blocking of Google Drive, and researchers found hundreds of legitimate websites unknowingly affected by the blocking system.
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