• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    8 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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      8 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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        7 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

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        7 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