Italian ISPs to Block 'Unlicensed' Online Gaming Websites

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Zone-H.

[snip]

A few hours ago the recently approved measure forcing Italian internet service providers to block unlicensed online 
gaming websites entered into force. The censoring method recommended by the [Italian] Amministrazione Autonoma Monopoli 
di Stato – the State Monopoly Agency - is based upon the redirection of queries to unauthorized websites to a dedicated 
website by using the ISP DNS systems.

In addition to censorship, we could potentially be facing massive log-based user listing. As a matter of fact, the 
February 7th 2006 much debated measure does not clarify how to technically ban Web sites, while it is extremely 
explicit on how transforming Italian internet service providers into unwilling co-operators of an act of Internet 
censorship and user listing.

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More here:
http://www.zone-h.org/news/read/id=205992

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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