• Balder@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Italian organized crime groups receipts have been estimated to reach 7–9% of Italy’s GDP.”

    But I guess pirating books is a more pressing problem.

  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    With these kind of news from Southern Europe it’s always about pirate football streams. How much does it cost to watch football legally in Italy?

    • Giooschi@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The only options you have are:

      • Dazn Standard (45€/month, 35€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to all the SerieA matches (and a whole bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

      • Dazn Goal Pass (20€/month, 14€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

      • Sky (16€/month for the first 18 months, then whatever Sky wants after that) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other stuff nobody cares about)

      Most people care only about some specific matches, so your only option is Dazn.

      Dazn is also a very crappy service, it often has connectivity problems and also has ads. Fun fact, if you get a connection issue while watching a Dazn ad, it will restart.

      So, as usual, monopoly, high costs and crappy services drive piracy.

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        3 months ago

        🤮

        Imagine stuffing so much cash in the butt of a rich guy, only to look how other, most likely better earners than you, play against each others using a tiny ball.

        I don’t get sports fanatics…

      • Damage@feddit.it
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        3 months ago

        Important note: wages in Italy are VERY low. 45€/month is a significant expense.

  • hossein@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Never heard of forcing VPN providers to block something. Kinda defeats the purpose. Long live Tor I guess?

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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months 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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        3 months ago

        Sounds like a possible violation of EU rights. Similar practices have cost other governments dearly in the past.

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        3 months ago

        I am experiencing such banning of providers right now. It is a whack-a-mole, seems futile. Not to mention that most people use sketchy free noname VPNs that are just too numerous. Or apparently some people set up basic XRay/VLESS/whatever and sell it via a Telegram bot…

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          Not mentionning that anyone can set up their own VPN server… Good fucking luck with that 💀

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            3 months ago

            You can ban big hosting providers, but even here they’re cautious with measures like that because it would break WAY too much. Not to mention that you could just use a lesser-known one, even if it doesn’t operate in the country legally.

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      3 months ago

      Supreme fascist control doesn’t start immediately. It needs to take one small baby step every day.

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    3 months ago

    Why tf are countries with a suffering middle and lower classes targeting them especially?

    To squeeze one more monthly subscription out of them?
    To just make then skip the culture they can’t afford?

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      3 months ago

      Because they don’t fight back unlike the billionaires who threaten to take jobs away / donate to their political rivals, the criminals who blackmail or threaten bodily harm (since this is Italy we’re taking about), and the individuals who fall into both categories.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve been pirating a long time. Not once have I been inconvenienced by any anti-Piracy measure. There’s always another way around.

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          3 months ago

          lol not really. Not a single piracy measure I’ve ever come across was anything more than a 3-5 minute Google fix away.

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            3 months ago

            Yep

            It’s like when YouTube finds a way to show you an ad, and then you go to ublock and update filters and boom fixed.

            Oh no Italy is requiring something unenforceable, hopefully nobody from other countries ignores this and provides VPN access unhindered.

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                3 months ago

                You seem very intent on convincing multiple people we are more inconvenienced than we feel.

                I think you are missing the feeling of smug superiority that comes from defeating the feeble multi-million dollar attempts to punish us…with 5 mouse clicks. So on the surface level it might be an inconvenience, but you step into the actual activity and boom, we’re telling these dumbasses to fuck off. And that’s fun.

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                  3 months ago

                  I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything, for some reason some people just want to ignore the meaning of words. I’m not saying anyone feels super inconvenienced either, like I said they’re minor inconveniences, but they’re there and they grow.

                  Frankly I couldn’t care less about sticking it to the man, I’ve been around the scene for 30 odd years at this point and I don’t think that’s ever been a motivator for me. I do like things that make it more convenient, more reliable and increase selection - I don’t like things that make it more difficult, no matter how small.