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The new Hadopi? Piracy Shield blocks innocent Web sites and makes it hard for them to appeal

Italy’s newly-installed Piracy Shield system, put in place by the country’s national telecoms regulator, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Authority for Communications Guarantees, AGCOM), is already failing in significant ways. One issue became evident in February, when the VPN provider AirVPN announced that it would no longer accept users resident […]

#agcom #airvpn #appealProcess #cloudflare #HADOPI #isp #italy #netBlocks #overblocking #piracyShield #torrentfreak #transparency #vpn #youtube

https://walledculture.org/the-new-hadopi-piracy-shield-blocks-innocent-web-sites-and-makes-it-hard-for-them-to-appeal/

Italy’s new Piracy Shield has just gone into operation and is already harming human rights there

Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly-named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to control what is available online, no court orders required. Piracy Shield went live in December, and has just issued its first […]

#agcom #airvpn #italy #netBlocks #piracyShield #privacy #security #vpn

https://walledculture.org/italys-new-piracy-shield-has-just-gone-into-operation-and-is-already-harming-human-rights-there/

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@lopeztel I've been using since a couple of years. It's decent and I trust them to not keep logs, and they're quite cheap. The only downside would be the speeds which can be so-so on different days, at least on the UK servers.

If money weren't an issue I'd probably give a go as well these days. Based in Switzerland and I trust Proton, since ProtonMail is pretty great and private.