Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.

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squiffsquiff 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am not defending the current situation but I am not aware of any case where anyone in the UK has gone to jail for piracy. Invariably what actually happens in such cases is:

1. See headline 'movie pirate goes to prison' which implies a link between the activity and the event 2. Actually read article based on industry press release and learn that the defendant was actually convicted for counterfeiting because they were running a business selling set-top boxes with preinstalled unauthorised streaming software or running their own third party unauthorised streaming service with paid subscriptions or something.

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wmf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If pirates "have to" use Cloudflare then blocking Cloudflare does work.

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chadgpt3 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is why they blocked the whole internet. You can't avoid a block by changing your address if the whole internet is blocked.

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embedding-shape 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Who blocked the whole internet? Doesn't happen here in Spain, which is the context for this submission, is "blocked the whole internet" what they do in the UK?

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swiftcoder 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> Doesn't happen here in Spain

Yeah, it does. They banned an unreasonably large range of Cloudflare CDN IPs pretty regularly during LaLiga matches, effectively blocking big chunks of the internet from Spain. It has gained fairly broad notice across the world in the last year[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-geGEYEw7g

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embedding-shape 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Haha, what? Are you going in circles? We're talking about the La Liga matches, that's the context of this conversation :P

And no, "the whole internet" does not get blocked, a handful of Cloudflare IPs get blocked, so any neighbors using those IPs too, are also unavailable.

Maybe it's just me, but some IPs on Cloudflare being blocked isn't "blocked the whole internet" and if you it is, I suggest you start visiting more websites than the 1-2 American ones you're stuck in seemingly.

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ktallett 16 hours ago | parent [-]

The whole internet wasn't blocked but a significant percentage was taken down due to the attempt to take down la liga streams. As explained, some banks, some payments systems, and a few other things stopped working due to the governments attempt at blocking streams. The government are clearly trying to exercise control over the people in a way that just doesn't work. It's no surprise though as the government has always been too heavily involved in football in Spain, especially Real Madrid and Barcelona.

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embedding-shape 16 hours ago | parent [-]

> but a significant percentage

Which websites/services that you use was actually hit by this and what ISP are you on though?

> I've been trying to keep track myself and so far in my months of collecting, I've noted down one service which is unavailable during the matches for me, Docker Hub, everything else seems to work today.`

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shimman 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do you feel it necessary for someone to explicitly prove something that has been reported on for nearly a year?

	▲	embedding-shape 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because I should be seeing it myself, locally, but I am not. How come? Why the discrepancy? Am I missing to keep track of some websites, as I'm currently only seeing Docker Hub being down, and the more websites I can add to my complaints, the higher chance they have of working.

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ktallett 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They didn't mean to, just they were incompetent. Also considering Spanish league is spread over the full long weekend a waste of time.

However this is why infrastructure and connection method is needing to be removed from the government by creation and adoption of alternatives such as mesh.