The Italian Senate has approved two amendments within the law against piracy, especially focused on football, which provides a one-year prison sentence for audiovisual fraud for teleoperators and VPN services.
The amendments, developed by the parties Fratelli’ d’Italia and Forza Italia – the latter It has Claudio Lotito, president of Lazio, as a senator.is framed within the Omnibus Decree Law and aims to strengthen its commitment against the illegal consumption of audiovisual content, mainly in football.
A bet against ‘pezzoto’
In particular, against the so-called ‘pezzoto’a word of Neapolitan origin by which the Italians refer to a decoder that allows illegal access to the content of Italian and foreign pay television channels.
Number of Italian football from last season with ‘Piracy Shield’, strengthened by the aforementioned amendments.
Block and report illegal content
Among the novelties of the Decree Law, it is notable that the amendments now force VPN and DNS services – tools that hide location and allow connection to restricted content – to block pirated content, something that so far has not happened because it is possible to continue. access to ‘blocked’ services using various tools, such as ‘pezzoto’ itself.
It also obliges teleoperators and service providers themselves Report illegal content and crime detected on their servers. This also includes VPNs, so those responsible for these companies They face jail if they are not in control and report any possibility that a crime has been committed.
Once the violation of the servers is confirmed, the authorities will take over this broadcast within a maximum period of 30 minutes from the notification of the crime.
Final buyer fines
In addition, the Authority for Communications Guarantee (Agcom) announced a few weeks ago its collaboration with the Financial Police and the Rome Prosecutor’s Office to fine the last buyer.
This Agcom protocol provides for the data of the users involved to be available to the judicial authorities, with fines that can vary from 150 to 5 thousand euros for illegal users of sports content.
These amendments to the Omnibus Decree Law also allow blocking legal pages They have nothing to do with piracy. Also, they remove limits on the number of pages that can be blocked, making it easier to fight piracy.
Cleanse ‘calcium’ accounts
Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo He appreciates these two new amendments very positively, considering that they will help clean up the ‘calcium’ accounts.
“Piracy is theft for all intents and purposes. Parliament has given important signals by creating an instrument allowing pirated sites to be removed and by working to have automatic instruments punishing people who don’t report acts of piracy,” De Servant said.
“Football is sustained by the income that comes from the public, through the presence in the stadiums, but above all the income from television. It is easy to understand why the 300 million is missing. “It is the money that Italian football lacks to guarantee the existence of great champions like in the past,” argued the executive director of Serie A.
Source: La Verdad
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