In Italy, the “Piracy Shield” system misfired so badly that an erroneous order took Google Drive offline for over 12 hours in October 2024.
A lot of ISPs have a three strike rule for piracy: if you get caught pirating content three times, they’ll disconnect you.
These “piracy blocking” services should be subject to a similar policy. If they cause outages for major service providers (Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, whatever) three times, they’re not allowed to activate the block any more until they fix the systemic issues causing the outages.
A lot of ISPs have a three strike rule for piracy: if you get caught pirating content three times, they’ll disconnect you.
These “piracy blocking” services should be subject to a similar policy. If they cause outages for major service providers (Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, whatever) three times, they’re not allowed to activate the block any more until they fix the systemic issues causing the outages.