In response to plenty of Italians opting to pirate Football (Soccer) matches, and so deny the government taxes on overpriced stadium food, drinks, and the like, the Italian government is making it so they can “order service providers, including network access providers, to disable access to content distributed illegally online, by ‘blocking the resolution of domain names using the domain name system (DNS) and blocking the routing of network traffic to IP addresses uniquely intended for illicit activities.’”
You could easily avoid this by just changing your DNS server to something hosted outside of Italy like Google or CloudFlare right? Seems trivially easy to circumvent, for someone who’s already going out of their way to pirate media.
The Italians are doing a 1,2 punch. Punch 1 is the DNS blocking. Punch 2 is having the ISP also block. So if you are an Italian using an Italian internet provider, you won’t be able to connect to the website.
Depending on the hosting/ddos protection of the site in question they cannot do Punch 2. If they are using Cloudflare for example then the ip address is shared with a bunch of other sites.