Cloudflare appeals Italy's Piracy Shield fine
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Cloudflare appealed a €14.2 million fine from Italy's communications regulator AGCOM after refusing to disable DNS resolution and traffic routing for domains and IP addresses on its 1.1.1.1 public DNS service.
Why it matters
The appeal challenges the legal basis for enforcing automated, 30-minute domain and IP blocking without judicial oversight, creating uncertainty around whether regulators can compel network-wide DNS filtering. That legal uncertainty makes it harder for Italian and EU authorities to rely on Piracy Shield-style rapid take-downs as an operational enforcement tool.
Implications
- • Operators of public recursive DNS services must decide whether to register with Piracy Shield or pursue legal challenges and prepare technical changes to implement 30-minute DNS-resolution blocks if courts uphold AGCOM's authority.
- • Italian Internet service providers' network operations teams must either align DNS and routing infrastructure to meet 30-minute blocking orders or prepare appeals in the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio.
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