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Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS – won’t cave to media cabal. Well done.

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Robin Edgar

Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, the country’s communications regulatory agency, AGCOM, announced yesterday. Cloudflare said it will fight the penalty and threatened to remove all of … Continue reading →

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Academic research finds economic, technical and operational harms from Italy’s Piracy Shield

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Robin Edgar

Walled Culture first wrote about Piracy Shield, Italy’s automated system for tackling alleged copyright infringement in the streaming sector, two years ago. Since then, we have written about the serious problems that soon emerged. But instead of fixing those issues, … Continue reading →

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As site blocks pile up, European Commission issues subtle slapdown to Italy’s Piracy Shield

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Robin Edgar

As numerous Walled Culture posts attest, site blocking is in the vanguard of the actions by copyright companies against sites engaged in the unauthorised sharing of material. Over the past few months, this approach has become even more pervasive, and … Continue reading →

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Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws and EU illegality

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Robin Edgar

Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly-designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of … Continue reading →

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Why Italy’s Piracy Shield destroys huge internet companies and small businesses with no recourse (unless you are rich) and can lay out the entire internet in Italy to… protect against football streaming?!

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Robin Edgar

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 … Continue reading →

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Italy is losing its mind because of copyright: it just made its awful Piracy Shield even worse

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Robin Edgar

Walled Culture has been writing about Italy’s Piracy Shield system for a year now. It was clear from early on that its approach of blocking Internet addresses (IP addresses) to fight alleged copyright infringement – particularly the streaming of football … Continue reading →

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Italy’s Piracy Shield Blocks Innocent Web Sites, Makes It Hard For Them To Appeal so ISPs are ignoring the law because it’s stupid

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Robin Edgar

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 … Continue reading →

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Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

Posted on January 11, 2026 by Robin Edgar

Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking €14.2 million fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued that filtering its global 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver would be “impossible” without hurting overall performance. AGCOM … Continue reading →

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LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Tactics Disrupt Major Sites in Spain. Again. Allowing company dragnets with no recourse, warning or anything is insanely stupid.

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Robin Edgar

LaLiga, Spain’s top football league, is facing a firestorm of criticism after boasting about a staggering 142% increase in anti-piracy takedown notices in early 2025 while simultaneously causing extensive collateral damage across the internet. As the 2025/2026 season began on … Continue reading →

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OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day after having quit France

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Robin Edgar

In a brief statement citing a court order in Belgium but providing no other details, Cisco says that its OpenDNS service is no longer available to users in Belgium. Cisco’s withdrawal is almost certainly linked to an IPTV piracy blocking … Continue reading →

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Italian “Piracy Shield” Instant Facisct Takedown Orders Apply to All ISPs, DNS & VPN Providers & Google

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Robin Edgar

Italy’s Piracy Shield anti-piracy system reportedly launched last week, albeit in limited fashion. Whether the platform had any impact on pirate IPTV providers offering the big game last Friday is unclear but plans supporting a full-on assault are pressing ahead. … Continue reading →

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Respond to the EU on allowing corporations to shut down sections of the internet with no recourse before 28th May

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Robin Edgar

After LaLiga accidentally shut down Cloudflare and Vercel in Spain (LaLiga Piracy Blocks Randomly Take Down huge innocent segments of internet with no recourse or warning, slammed as “Unaccountable Internet Censorship”) and the Italian Privacy Shield shut down Google Drive … Continue reading →

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EU prepares to give new rights to live streaming sites, to the detriment of the Internet and its users

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Robin Edgar

At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the dispiriting saga of how the EU Copyright Directive came into being. It began in early 2013 with the usual “stakeholder dialogue”, in which the European Commission … Continue reading →

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Amazon Will Stick Ads on Prime Video Unless You Pay Up MOAR – wasn’t the model to pay to not have ads in the first place?

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Robin Edgar

Amazon has always handled its streaming video slate a little differently than the competition. Other companies have slyly introduced a cheaper ad-free option while slowly raising prices on non-ad-based subscription tiers, Prime Video is taking a different tack. The streaming … Continue reading →

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Italians turn telco regulator into internet spy, judge and jury, puts 25% of population as criminals

Posted on July 30, 2023 by Robin Edgar

Italy’s brand new anti-piracy law has just received full approval from telecoms regulator AGCOM. In a statement issued Thursday, AGCOM noted its position “at the forefront of the European scene in combating online piracy.” The new law comes into force … Continue reading →

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Tomb Raiding

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Robin

Tomb Raiders exist and treasure hunters are still being prosecuted for beating archaeologists to the find. Why? Because buried treasure is a non-renewable resource which tells us about our history, especially when the finds are taken in context, and thus … Continue reading →

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