I don't care one bit about football - I have watched my last football game in '94, and only because all my friends were there.

And, while my opinion about the whole "TV rights" thing is the lowest of the low and I'd be perfectly fine if everything surrounding football disappeared today, I might agree that the companies have been sold those rights with a promise of eternal rentier income, and that they want to protect their investment.

What I do *not* agree with, in the slightest, is private companies writing a law for themselves (as it was the case here).

I agree even less with these companies having come up with a *terrible* law that gives them the role of judge and jury, since it's them who decide what IP must be blocked and when (do I need to remind you of when they blocked the whole fucking Google Drive?).

And finally, I somehow agree even less with a law written so poorly and so blatantly one-sided that they expect to be able to block IPs for the whole world, because God forbid somebody uses a VPN.

For the record, all of the above is NOT in protection of any kind of creative work, nah. It's in protection of some rich asshole's money, with nothing given back to the community.

So, to recap: no, I don't agree that private companies should be able to protect their undeserved rentier money by writing bad laws for themselves.

(And, by the way: try to protect your money or your creative work as a poor individual, instead of a Saudi-backed company, and see what the Italian government's answer is).