Summary: downloading movies you risk little, the problem is uploading.

Between November and December 2016 the Guardia di Finanza, on the orders of the investigating judge of the Court of Rome, made the largest joint darkening of illegal sites that offer streaming content and downloads.
Within hours it was prevented access to more websites than in the three previous years, but it is not only the number to suggest that there has been a significant turn of the screw in the fight against online piracy.
The new measures, in fact, trying to climb back the slope of the money obtained from these sites to track individuals that are hidden behind.
This change in strategy will actually be able to put an end at the time when each video content was available online for free with ease?
And beyond this, the consequences will concern only the providers of these services illegal?
What threatens indeed who illegally download a movie-and maybe it resharing in peer-to-peer or looks directly streaming systems?
To understand this law expert I contacted the lawyer Fulvio Sarzana, new technologies, which has been overseeing a blog that deals with these issues.
I tried to summarize what you told me in a number of important aspects, in order to sum up the situation of online piracy and the real hazards of using it in Italy.
WHAT HAPPENS USING THESE SITES?
First, one must distinguish the type of behavior of users who use this content: "the norm approved in 2005 on the subject, which introduced substantially in our legal system the case of downloading and uploading of material protected by copyright on the Internet, poses a substantial difference, "said the lawyer Sarzana.
In fact, those who watch movies or TV series streaming, or perform a download for your personal and individual, is not likely to nothing.
And that even for a simple practical question: "the police are mainly concentrated in the identification of those who offer these services-groped to prosecute thousands of users would be really complicated-and then upload to represent a substantial difference to the risk of being identified. "
The way things are, in fact, make use of this content without sharing them on the internet really away any potential legal retaliation, although in theory you are still doing an unlawful act which would provide an administrative penalty.
"In other countries, like France, you also get to cut the internet for those who download."
THERE ARE SITES OR HOW YOU ACTUALLY YOU RISK MORE?
As the user who performs downloading does not respond, except with some pretty bland administrative sanctions, the type of service that uses it makes no difference.
Whether you use an illegal site to watch a Champions League match in streaming, or to download the first season of Narcos.
WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES WHICH COULD ACTUALLY GO MEETING SHARING FILES DOWNLOADED?
If you upload to make a difference, it is still likely to understand what all users who participate in circuits of peer-to-peer.
In this case, the upload is the purpose to be discriminating.
"Any person who places on the content file-sharing systems protected by copyright, non-profit, risk a penalty.
But it is a penalty Penalties of fines up to 2065-euro-which does not provide for imprisonment. "
Those who does so with profit, undergoes a process which provides for imprisonment; This is the category to which focus more actions of the Guardia di Finanza, to precisely reduce the flow of this content.
WE MUST BE CAREFUL IN WI-FI OUR?
The providers that give us access to the internet retain all of our navigation data, and theoretically this could be an important factor.
"These data are used by large corporations to track, more or less legally, the fulfillment of certain behaviors.
Actually they would be protected by data privacy, however, much debate-not that anyone has ever brought real-evidence that some companies are able to know what are the users who download. "
The Case Peppermint, from this point of view, is quite significant: the German record label in 2006 accused more than 3,600 users for illegally shared files on which exercised copyright, with the complicity of their provider.
The Guarantor of privacy, however, established the illegality of the data collected.
For the legislation does not provide sanctions As for the hypothetical danger that someone use a wi-fi-public or subtracting the password to a private-to download files protected by copyright or manage your sharing site, load of those who own the line.
"The responsibility of the provider refers to hosting, and thus one who answers the infringement is the user."
ONE CAN SAY THAT ACTUALLY THE AGE OF STREAMING FREE IS UNLAWFUL TO END?
Beyond the amount of seized sites, the latter operation of the Guardia di Finanza also provides a quantum leap in the type of procedure used to prosecute those who profit thanks to these sites.
"The law enforcement agencies want to first be able to identify those who work behind these sites thanks to the flow of money, and show that often these individuals are found in Italy.
And then contestargli a series of joint crimes. "
Such measures could in fact lead to the end of the mechanism according to which a hijacked site is reopened after a few hours by using another url, because finally would lead to identify those responsible.
With the tightening of the consequences, then there would probably be a net reduction of supply.
In reality, however, it may not be so clear in decreeing the imminent death of the phenomenon.
According Sarzana, however, the development of the issue also involves other dynamics.
"One of the real problems that powers online piracy, however, remains intact: that the inadequacy of legal services.
If these services will not change-that is, making them more accessible, functional, and economic-will be difficult to completely stem the flow. "

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