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      Italian law allows for up to three years in jail for “promotion of pirated copyrighted materials.” Italy generally has some fucked up laws, like ISPs required to block DNS addresses by request of Copyright holders for blocking of illegal live sports in very short time frames, and those blocks are not even required to be listed somewhere, which has already caused some issues like when they blocked a cloudflare ip, causing completely innocent sites and services suddenly being blocked in the whole country. Recently they demanded that google Poison their DNS servers using that same law.

      Italy is the MPAA’s wet dream manifest

      E: i forgot that they also managed to block the entire google drive domain in italy because there were some downloads there lol

      E2: i was not completely up to date: In January, the Court of Milan found that Cloudflare’s CDN, DNS server, and WARP VPN were facilitating piracy. The court threatened Cloudflare with fines of up to 10,000 euros per day if it did not begin blocking the sites.