Italy’s telecoms regulator, the Communications Authority (AgCom), has fined the US Internet services company Cloudflare €14 million for violating anti-piracy regulations.

The fine, set at 1 per cent of the company’s global turnover, was issued because Cloudflare failed to disable access to pirated content as ordered on February 18th 2025. Cloudflare was required to block DNS resolution and network traffic to IP addresses linked to illegal content or implement other measures to make such content inaccessible.

The Authority found that Cloudflare continuously violated Anti-Piracy Law 93/2023 and related AgCom provisions, even after being notified of the order. The San Francisco-based company denies any irregularities.

The decision by AgCom reinforces the anti-piracy law, which now includes all information society service providers—such as VPNs, public DNS providers, and search engine operators—in the fight against piracy, regardless of their location.

Since its launch in February 2024, the Piracy Shield platform has disabled over 65,000 FQDNs (Fully Qualified Domain Names) and approximately 14,000 IP addresses associated with illegal content.

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Tags: Agcom, anti piracy, CloudFlare