• @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    1512 hours ago

    So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?

    • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      512 hours ago

      [Speculation]

      They’ll probably get a list of hashes from major copyright holders. So the biggest torrents won’t work, but you’ll still be able to pirate small-time artists.

      • @undu@discuss.tchncs.de
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        512 hours ago

        But the individual network packets are usually at most 1500 byes long, and applications encrypt the content. Hashing doesn’t prevent jack squat. It’s more likely to be DNS + IP blocks

      • @kiagam@lemmy.world
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        312 hours ago

        How would a hash help? The dns just gives you info to resolve the destination, not the content.

        They would need to map the trackers most likely