Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

This just means that there will be an offshore proxy market in the near
future.

Owen


--On March 6, 2006 12:41:24 PM -0700 Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>
wrote:

> It appears that Italy has ordered Italian ISPs to block access to a
> number of Internet Gambling sites. It would be interesting to see how
> the Italian ISPs are handling this, what with dynamic DNS and all  that...
>
>
>  From Monsters and Critics.com
>
> Tech News
> Italy bans unauthorised online gambling sites
> By DPA
> Mar 3, 2006, 19:00 GMT
>
> Rome - Italy has become the first European nation to outlaw scores of
> unauthorised gambling sites that are available on the Internet.
>
> Italy\'s Economy Ministry has published a list of more than 600  offshore
> gaming sites that are in the process of being made  unavailable to
> Italian internet users.
>
> The list includes popular gambling sites such as 888.com, which is  based
> in the Caribbean island of Antigua and which describes itself  as \'the
> world\'s No. 1 online casino & poker room.\'
>
> A spokesperson for Italy\'s State Monopolies told Deutsche Presse-
> Agentur dpa on Friday that Italian police were currently moving to
> prevent Italian internet providers from allowing connections to the
> banned sites. Internet providers that fail to comply face fines of up  to
> 180,000 euros (216,000 dollars). ...
>
> More available at http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/
> article_1134456.php



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