Italy: : AGCOM orders the blocking of the DNS of several football streaming sites

• Autores: Ernesto Apa, Daniel Giuliano
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 10, 2015, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 10 September 2015, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority - AGCOM) by means of Resolutions no. 157/15/CSP, 158/15/CSP and 159/15/CSP ordered the blocking of the DNS of several web pages hosted on servers managed by foreign companies through which it was possible to view football matches between Italian and foreign teams.

    The legal basis of the abovementioned AGCOM decisions is the Regulation for the protection of copyright on electronic communications networks adopted by means of Resolution no. 680/13/CONS on 12 December 2013.

    In particular Section 8, paragraph 4 of the above AGCOM Regulation sets forth that if AGCOM ascertains a copyright infringement and the infringing website is hosted on servers located outside Italy, AGCOM may order the relevant service providers to disable the access to the web page