Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content
The new measures are set to be added to the country's Piracy Shield
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So will the Italian government provide an Official List of Pirated Content or do the VPN providers need to determine it manually?
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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.
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
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