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Cloudflare Appeals Piracy Shield Fine, Hopes To Kill Italy's Site-Blocking Law

By BeauHDSlashdot.org

Cloudflare is appealing a 14. 2 million-euro fine from Italy for refusing to comply with its "Piracy Shield" law, which requires blocking access to websites on its 1. 1.

1. 1 DNS service within 30 minutes. The company argues the system lacks oversight, risks wide…

Piracy Shield is "a misguided Italian regulatory scheme designed to protect large rightsholder interests at the expense of the broader Internet," Cloudflare said in a blog post this week. "After Clou…