On Trump's day, among the secondary news that can be read in the various newspapers there is one that talks about a maxi operation of the anti-piracy finance guard, who would have closed more than 150 websites because they offered streaming content without rights copyright, that is mainly films and football matches. When I hear about such operations, I genuinely get a little smile and I really wonder if those who govern them really believe it or if they are only ways of showing that there is control, even if done in this way it serves no purpose and does nothing else. than advertising the offending sites.
But it is really possible for a police or government authority to close an illegal website and fight online piracy "> by changing the DNS in the network settings of our computers.
The DNS server is the one that associates IP with domain names and if on the DNS servers of our internet provider the names of some sites were no longer associated with their IP, just connect to any foreign DNS to evade the block.
Even Google offers effective free and free DNS servers.
The second, somewhat more effective, way is to block IP.
In this case, changing DNS would be useless, because it is the server where the site was published that is no longer reachable.
One might therefore think that this methodology may be valid, while it is not at all, because the obscured sites will simply need to change servers, which is a really trivial operation for those who deal with these things.
If the block were at the IP and domain level, the site will be forced to change both the server and the name, but will still remain online with all the available content.
So what weapon can the Postal Police or the Guardia di Finanza have to close the pirate sites forever?
Theoretically, he could report the owners, fined them or even ask to put them in prison, but there would be many impediments.
Meanwhile, piracy should also be demonstrated in a process and it would not be a short thing, also many sites of this type are managed by people who live in other parts of the world and I do not think it is so simple to go and catch them one by one.
It would take a demanding, expensive, international police action that is perhaps not worth the effort.
However, there have been cases of seized sites, which have been forced to close really because the owners have gone through serious trouble with justice.
Among the most striking cases we can mention Megaupload, Piratebay and, recently, Kickasstorrent, whose founder has also been arrested.
And what does a pirate site gain?
Those who open a site with illegal content such as copyrighted ones today earn a lot of money from the obsessive advertisements that are put on every page.
Probably, given the amount of sites of this type, the game is worth the candle, even if there is a risk of a heavy fine or being investigated for tax evasion.
Does Piracy Really Hurt the Film Industry or TV?
When news of obscured sites and damage caused by illegal streaming appear, we rely heavily on figures pumped by those who accuse them.
As I see it, though, if one chooses to turn to pirated sites, he is not one who would pay for that content.
As also written in the past in the guide to the legal sites of streaming movies and streaming football, those who really care, today, would do much better to subscribe to one of the online services (which cost relatively little) and not to use pirated sites.
I am not saying this for the sake of legality, but because the illegal streaming sites, in fact, are far from comfortable, all covered by advertisements, with videos that are often interrupted or that load slowly and, above all, capable of infecting in a moment computers with malware and viruses.
In the vast majority of cases, those who have a virus problem on their PC either tried to download / view illegal content or clicked on the wrong place on an adult site.
