[Brett_Riverboat]

Google is nothing but blinded by greed at this point, they are so shortsightedly chasing a dollar that they can't seem to recognize this behavior is exactly what is losing the money. They are inconveniencing paying customers to combat pirates who don't care and will only double down on their efforts and incidentally expose all of this for the brain dead blunder that it is.

[sunaookami]

You might want to re-read the article. This has nothing to do with Google, it's Italy to blame.

[Brett_Riverboat]

Shame on me, Its so easy to assume google did another stupid thing that I just skimmed it and made an assumption. My bad.