So I am working, I need to check this open source software documentation and I get this message.
It basically says Internet Service Providers are forced to block Cloudflare IP addresses as LaLiga claims it is used to illegally stream the soccer games.
I’m confused, they want people to pay money to watch? But money can be used for drugs and corruption…
Soccer in Spain (and also in Italy) has enough power to bend the laws to their will.
Right now, soccer is available almost exclusively through paid channels (that are not cheap, in italy it costs around 50€ month and that won’t give you all the soccer, because some games are exclusive to other paid channels].
This makes people rely on piracy because of how expensive and bad the system is.
Since the soccer is so powerful, it can block innocent pages just to block people from watching soccer for free.
(And also in Portugal) Welcome to south Europe (I guess)!
Germany did this too up until a month ago https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/573659 .
People shouldn’t use Cloudflare for everything anyway, it unnecessarily centralises the internet and blocks Tor and VPNs
Cloudflare works perfectly fine with VPN.
But browser plugins to fuck with the fingerprint don’t.
I would call this more than just mildly infuriating. Every time there is soccer, a big part of the Internet stops working for me (including my own Netxcloud and Matrix instances, which I am proxing via Cloudflare).
Stremio.
I don’t give two shits about football or anyone pirating it, the problem is that they block a bunch of websites that have nothing to do with that. They had a similar idea last year when they wanted to completely block telegram in the whole country because some degenerates were sharig cp using the platform. The scorched earth policies are not just mildly annoying.
