Walled Culture has been following the sorry saga of Italy’s automated blocking system Piracy Shield for a year now. Blocklists are drawn up by copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks must be enforced within 30 minutes. Needless to say, such a ham-fisted and biased approach to copyright …
It would be worth adding the number of paid users and other data before and after the introduction of piracy shield, no one I know who used to pirate football stopped doing that in the last year. So it’s not only dangerous but also probably useless