Maybe they could with those popular VPNs like, for example, NordVPN. I hope they don’t IP block such VPNs. In italy before Piracy Shield there wasn’t a strong law enforcement, for example people used torrents for years (but also now) with no VPNs at all, and I don’t know nobody that has received a complain letter or similar; but the Lega Calcio is a strong corporation, dimostrated to be stronger than gonverment itselfs, in some cases. All this circus because of soccer.

Internet has changed.

100% corporate law enforcement.

In Italy there’s a distopia called “Piracy Shield” that is banhamming random sites (for a day also Google Drive was banned WTF). Is an IP ban system, so you cannot escape changing DNS, is directly controlled by Lega Calcio; they can ban an IP for no reason in about 30 minutes. (Fun fact: it’s supported by a law that requires ALL VPNs of the whole world follow the ban LOL)

So the Italian government gave to a private company the power to virtually shutdown the internet in Italy.