{"id":74166,"date":"2023-08-28T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=74166"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T09:00:57","slug":"insane-iptv-blocking-system-will-solve-digital-piracy-but-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=74166","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInsane\u201d IPTV Blocking System \u201cWill Solve Digital Piracy\u201d But Not Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"football\"<\/a>It\u2019s hard to say how many times the movie, music, and more recently live sports industries have survived imminent piracy-inflicted apocalypses. They have though, possibly since those issuing the warnings usually have ideas about how to prevent them.<\/p>\n

More often the solution lies in new legislation that allows rightsholders to do something the law currently disallows. The proposals can be radical but to a background of industry X or Y disappearing overnight with the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, urgency is always part of the equation.<\/p>\n

This June, as Italian lawmakers were preparing to pass radical IPTV blocking legislation, DAZN publicly urged lawmakers<\/a> to speed up the process. DAZN reminded them that since piracy steals \u20ac800,000 from live sports every single day, live \u2018dynamic\u2019 nationwide blocking needed to be implemented without delay. <\/p>\n

The law was passed on July 14 and telecoms regulator AGCOM later declared \u201cperfect synchrony\u201d with the measures going into force August 8, just 11 days before the start of the new Serie A football championship.<\/p>\n

100 Pirate Services Identified, None Blocked<\/h2>\n

Articles in Italian media marked out August 8 as a day to remember. Not only would pirate IPTV services face sudden blocking, people who simply bought pirate IPTV packages risked a 5,000 euro fine under new law. <\/p>\n

According to a report in La Repubblica<\/a>, what actually happened on August 8 amounted to almost nothing at all. While the blocking system identified around \u201c100 violations,\u201d no pirate services or streams were blocked.<\/p>\n

One explanation for the absence of blocking notes that the parties responsible for blocking are required to have a \u201ctechnical roundtable\u201d to finalize details before any blocking can take place. That\u2019s accurate and also makes perfect sense; any overblocking would be a PR disaster. However, some fingers also point towards parliament for not passing the law sooner.<\/p>\n

A less generous read suggests that most of the technical work should\u2019ve preceded the blocking demands themselves, with tested capability guiding any permission to block. Some also argue that when parliament took an extra four weeks to pass the law, that was also another month to get things ready. Unfortunately, developing software without knowing the details up front rarely goes well and in any event, the delay is clearly going to be longer than four weeks.<\/p>\n

Might Be Ready in October<\/h2>\n

Ultimately, the situation seems easily summed up; lawmakers delivered urgently and, for whatever reason, the blocking parties aren\u2019t ready. La Repubblica reports that the technical table is scheduled for the first week of September, a month after the law came into force, and the results of that may be known \u201cas early as the beginning of October.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or to express that in DAZN terminology: a minimum \u20ac48,000,000 delay.<\/p>\n

Still, a source familiar with the so-called \u2018anti-pezzotto\u2019 blocking platform told Key4Biz<\/a> that the delay is necessary, partially for security reasons. <\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) will reportedly beef up the system\u2019s security because \u201cit will certainly be subject to cyber-attacks commissioned by the criminals who manage illegal IPTVs.\u201d <\/p>\n

If that has already happened to similar blocking systems elsewhere in the world, nothing has been reported in public. That being said, it would make for controversial headlines if pirates suddenly acquired superior blocking capabilities than those being prepared for their rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe platform is insane and will solve digital piracy and will be used from late September\/early October,\u201d the Key4Biz source added.<\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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