{"id":45776,"date":"2024-11-14T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45776"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:24:45","slug":"google-drive-blackout-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/14\/google-drive-blackout-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive Blackout in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/google-drive-blackout-in-italy-after-another-major-anti-piracy-blunder-241020\/\">Andy Maxwell<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=41901168\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/google-drive-blackout-in-italy-after-another-major-anti-piracy-blunder-241020\/\">\n<p>After blocking Cloudflare [<a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/piracy-shield-cloudflare-disaster-blocks-countless-sites-fires-up-opposition-240226\/\">link<\/a>] to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy&rsquo;s ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians, wasn&rsquo;t just a hapless IP address blunder.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The domain\/subdomain blocked in the image above is <em>drive.usercontent.google.com<\/em>; not only does this URL clearly identify Google as its owner, the Google product it serves is on full display too. With no prompting a 10-year-old could identify google.com as important on the internet. So, three broad explanations for how it ended up on the system (ticket below) before causing chaos.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A full twelve hours after the block was put in place, around 20% of the Italian population still had no access to their Google Drives due to the lingering IP address block that underpinned the domain-based blocking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=41901841\">yunohn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=41901841\">\n<p>This feels very similar to the Indian government constantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/act-fibernet-unblocks-github-content-domain\/article66361444.ece\/amp\/\">blocking and unblocking<\/a> GitHub&rsquo;s &ldquo;raw&rdquo; content domain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Maxwell (via Hacker News): After blocking Cloudflare [link] to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy&rsquo;s ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians, wasn&rsquo;t just a hapless IP address blunder. 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