European ISPs want piracy rightsholders to pay for the sites they wrongly block (torrentfreak.com)
EuroISPA is asking the EU to make rightsholders financially liable for collateral damage from overbroad site-blocking. Its examples are concrete: Italy's Piracy Shield hit over 7,700 domains and once knocked a Portuguese host's email offline for 16 days; Spain's LaLiga blocks shared IPs so aggressively that banking and developer tools vanish during matches.
One reader's caution cut through the cheering: model-training firms also want a looser grip on content, so a win framed as protecting users could quietly become a fight over who profits.
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