Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content

lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • undu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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