cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/74401190

Several countries are already ahead of Brussels. In 2025, a Paris court ordered five major VPNs to block more than 200 illegal sports streaming sites, while Italy moved to extend its Piracy Shield system to VPN and DNS providers.

In Spain, a Córdoba court ordered NordVPN and Proton VPN to block IP addresses tied to illegal LaLiga streams in February.

The same court later refused to fine NordVPN for not complying. LaLiga has since asked the Commission to add NordVPN, Proton VPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark to its piracy watch list.

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[–] 53 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Maybe the VPN/ISP/Home companies should rebrand as LLM/AI companies, then copyright won't even exist anymore. Problem solved.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    Given that Anthropic is limiting the reverse engineering of games, I'm not sure that would matter!

    Copyright doesn't matter when its us peons being taken from, but don't you dare touch the lords on their thrones of gold.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Piracy will soon become the only way to consume a lot of content without verifying your identity. The internet is being destroyed in a multi-pronged approach

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  • [–] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    Big note that might be missed in the text that contextualizes how fucked up what La Liga in Spain is doing is. A judge gave a court order to ISPs to follow through when La Liga tells them to ban IPs without asking for a new court order per case, this VPN thing is there to catch people trying to circumvent the ban. The issue is that several streaming sites use cloud flare, so La Liga made ISPs ban half the fucking internet because they just banned half of cloud flare.

    It's so bad that there's a web called hayahora.futbol to check if it's this shit when your fav forum, some Lemmy instances, several wikis, radarr and so much other stuff starts giving timeouts.

    I don't see football, I already took issue with the fucking fans blocking the entry to the hospital in my city when there is a match, I really hate the concept since they took half the internet...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    When they began the ban, I discovered I was banned out of the RAE website and many other completely unrelated websites. All because of a sport. On the plus side, I managed to convince many friends of the importance of using a good VPN.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    So they're asking VPN companies to start doing deep packet inspection? As if people won't start using Russian grade obfuscation techniques...

    Funny, the article mentions nothing about the recent Quad9 case.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    It’s probably just DNS blocking… for now.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago* (5 children)

    Yes, but soon enough more people will figure out to change their DNS, so it's gonna turn into cat and mouse.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Problem is, VPNs can enforce DNS - by blocking any secure (DoH/DoT) methods, forcing the device to fall back to regular insecure DNS, which has to go through the VPN tunnel, where the traffic can be intercepted and forced through their own DNS service.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (3 children)

    they can't block all DoH and DoT service. the former literally looks like web traffic, the latter is even more generic. Basically anyone can spin up services like those

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    If you can run an instance...

    DoT/DoQ is easy to block since it uses a specific port - 853.

    DoH, just block traffic to known providers by IP or SNI. There you go, secure DNS defeated.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    DoT/DoQ is easy to block since it uses a specific port - 853.

    by default. but they can use different ports.

    DoH, just block traffic to known providers by IP or SNI. There you go, secure DNS defeated.

    then a thousand DoH services pop up, or your friend runs one for you, or whatever, and they won't be able to find all of them. just like streaming companies can't completely block all VPN providers either.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    I hope proton will do something about their crazy ceo so I can continue to have my VPN in Switzerland...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Money paid to Mullvad ends up as donations to a Nazi party.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yes the co founder donated to a swedish far right party, so what are the alternatives to Proton and MullVad to stay in Switzerland's jurisdiction?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Another issue is that later anyone with access to AI creates their own, make it open source and the cycle continues 🤔

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