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Italy orders ISPs to block sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Mon Mar 6 14:43:50 2006
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:41:24 -0700
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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