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From: Robert <monstoor@spammedia.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Google Drive blackout in Italy
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:22:50 +0100
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After blocking Cloudflare to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, 
on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs 
to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting 
millions of Italians, wasn't just a hapless IP address blunder. This was 
the reckless blocking of a Google.com subdomain that many 10-year-olds 
could identify as being important. Reckless people and internet 
infrastructure, what could possibly go wrong next?

The mind boggles...

<https://torrentfreak.com/>
-- 
Rob
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational 
in order to prove that you care, or, indeed, why it should be necessary 
to prove it at all." - Avon, Blake's 7