Reclaim The Net Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the internet with no court, no notice, and no appeal.
Cloudflare is pushing back against Piracy Shield, an Italian copyright enforcement system that lets private media companies order website blocks with no judicial oversight, no transparency, and no appeals process.
When Cloudflare refused to register, Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM fined it €14 million last December. Cloudflare appealed on March 8 and is continuing its legal challenge against the system itself.
The fine was calculated on Cloudflare’s global revenue, a choice AGCOM made despite Italian law capping non-compliance penalties at 2% of earnings within the relevant jurisdiction.
Applied correctly to Cloudflare’s Italian revenue, the ceiling would have been roughly €140,000. AGCOM went global instead, producing a penalty nearly 100 times higher than the legal limit.
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