“It would likewise be desirable for the personal scope of application to extend to the entire chain of intermediaries technically involved in the distribution of unauthorised content, including providers of content delivery networks, VPN services, dedicated servers and DNS resolution systems.”
Football rights holders want a 30 minute kill switch aimed at DNS resolvers, VPNs and CDNs. That is not piracy enforcement. That is a takedown pipe pointed at the plumbing of the internet, built to a broadcaster’s deadline. The study also wants every member state to stand up an AGCOM-style authority to run it, which keeps courts out of the loop entirely. Anyone blocked by mistake finds out after the match is over.