Had to go to the article cuz I was like what the fuck does this even mean. Copyright holders who are causing large amounts of the internet to be blocked are causing huge issues across Europe and the ISPs want them to pay for that.
Thanks
they “lack the technical means to apply geographically restricted blocks and are frequently neither based in nor subject to the jurisdiction of the issuing Member State.”
These censorship crusaders never think about jurisdiction, do they? They think because they get a court order in one country, they can control the entire worldwide internet.
This sound absolutely reasonable. I hope they get this implemented
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.
