Regardless of the different problems, including the blocking of the sites are legitimate Piracy Shield is considered a success. Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, and the company of the other Big Tech ' claim that the platform represents a major threat to the trade, the digital, and the internet. Initiatives such as the anti-piracy cause an increase of the costs, and the censorship of the unintended.
The shield of the Piracy threat of free trade
The charges against the Piracy Shield is a document (PDF) sent to the Care of the Infrastructure of the Website (I2Coalition), Representatives of the Trade of the United States (USTR). I2Coalition is an organization that represents the service provider and the cloud to small and great, hosting, CDN, DNS and a VPN, including Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, GoDaddy, AtlasVPN, and ExpressVPN.
The group stressed that the measures against piracy, to be put in place to block the content of a law, that threaten the nature of a free and open internet, by preventing the trade in the free services offered by companies in the united states. In the past, the charge of the blockade was directed only to the ISP's. Today they were lying on the provider's DNS, CDN and VPN. Moreover, the control is adequate, is not carried out, therefore, the access to the websites of legitimate blocked.
One of the areas mentioned in the document, is also in the Country. I2Coalition points out that Piracy Shield made to the IP addresses used by the service provider and the cloud of the lock, preventing the access to the services, and websites without regard to piracy. The reference is to block the IP addresses from Cloudflare and Google Drive.
The group adds one to the other charges. In the country, which regulates the issues identified, the european Parliament has adopted amendments to the law requiring that the service provider's DNS and a VPN is to hide the content of the report from the rights holders. Given the lack of controls to be visible, it may be the cause of the interruption of service, blockage of the sites are legitimate, and the termination of the VPN's in Italy, as has already happened).
AGCOM has been warned by DAZN for a report on the IP address of Google Drive, but it does not have any intention to suspend Piracy Shield, as has been suggested by two of the commissioners of the authority. According to the other Massimiliano Capitanio), the platform is functioning perfectly. In just 8 months, he was blocked over 32,000 IP address.
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