Piracy shield in Italy - unavoidable even with a VPN? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 4 months ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Well, color me surprised when, with my Proton VPN enabled, I still faced a government-mandated MITM attack while attempting to visit 1337x.to

"AVVISO

L’accesso al presente sito, che diffondeva illecitamente contenuti protetti dal diritto d’autore, è stato disabilitato in esecuzione di un provvedimento dell’Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni ai sensi del Regolamento di cui alla delibera n. 680/13/CONS

Per maggiori informazioni visiti il sito www.agcom.it"

To be completely honest, I wasn’t aware this was possible when using a VPN. I’ve tried swapping to multiple servers within Proton, but all seem to be returning the same. Is there some commonly known workaround?

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 34 points 4 months ago

Check your DNS

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 months ago

Personal recommendation: https://ipleak.net is a good website to check your DNS, torrent protection, and some more useful info.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://browserleaks.com/dns

And you need to configure protonvpn correctly so it uses their DNS. In the VPN world this is known as a 'DNS leak'.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Probably because of your DNS configuration?

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 11 points 4 months ago

I'm thinking it must be a DNS configuration issue... Every server with ProtonVPN is showing the same, from the US to Netherlands to Switzerland. All of them.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Someone described to me in detail how your computer resolves hostnames.

https://fedia.io/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/926852/-/comment/5928540

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Switch to cloudlfare DNS or something similar.

[-] ex_06@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

My brother in Christ do not spread disinformation x)

I can access it without even using any vpn, just changed dns a lot of time ago and I never get that piracywall

Secondo me stai leakando i dns, controlla di averli configurati bene

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Change your DNS resolver to one of these https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Use a DNS out of your jurisdiction, preferably a privacy focused one, that issue will go away.

[-] AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure its because of the piracy shield thingy. Secure Core might be an option as long as no Italian servers are used and you're using the VPNs DNS

https://torrentfreak.com/airvpn-stops-serving-italians-due-to-piracy-shield-blocking-requirements-240206/

“[A]ll parties in any capacity involved in the accessibility of illegally disseminated content – and therefore also, by way of example and not limitation – VPN and open DNS service providers, will have to execute the blocks requested by the Authority [AGCOM],” the notice read.

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 months ago

Yes, it absolutely is a result of the piracy shield thingy. Secure Core does seem to work!

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In which country is the protonvpn server?

[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I bet this is ops issue. Either the vpn auto selected the fastest server (probably in Italy) of op defaulted to a local server. Op should change server to a country with more lax rules (Netherlands?).

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 months ago

Nope. Swapped to every other server ProtonVPN has. I'm thinking it might be a DNS configuration issue though, because yeah, I don't understand why a different server wouldn't end run around this.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 4 months ago

I'm using windscribe VPN from Italy and it works without issues right now

[-] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Search "what is my ip" on your web search engine to see without and with a VPN connection, to see if you're really going through the VPN tunnel. Seems like you aren't.