<ul><li>Italy has ordered Google to poison its public DNS servers as part of the Piracy Shield law.</li><li>The Court of Milan issued this ruling after a complaint that Google failed to block pirate websites related to illegal streaming of Serie A football matches.</li><li>DNS poisoning, or blocking content via DNS, has been criticized for its messy and indiscriminate blocking of entire domains.</li><li>Italian ISPs previously blocked the entire Google Drive domain due to copyright infringement concerns.</li></ul>

Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law

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