In Italy, 80% of the population supports the Piracy Shield law, which recently led to a court order demanding Google poison its public DNS servers. This law targets illegal football streams, with the Court of Milan ruling against Google for failing to block pirate websites identified by AGCOM, Italy’s communication regulator. The focus has been on sites streaming Series A football matches. Since Google provides a public DNS service, it falls under the site-blocking law. Critics call Piracy Shield draconian due to its broad DNS blocking, which can affect entire domains. Last year, Italian ISPs mistakenly blocked Google Drive because of pirated content. DNS poisoning alters records, preventing users from accessing the correct IP address when typing a domain name.
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