Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

old.reddit.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 232 posts

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#41

Post by CuriouslyC »

lifestyleguru wrote: post #11
Lucasoato wrote: post #5

In Italy something similar is happening: they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly (that's very high for our economy). To this, add the facts that there has been a major hit to illegal streaming piracy and that football games are getting extremely boring in our country (compared to the Premier League or our Serie A of…

So it looks like a self resolving problem? As a bonus football hooligans and football vandalism will disappear, and hopefully kids will be encouraged to do more creative activities than kicking a ball.

Hooligans won't go away with football, they'll just find another outlet for their suppressed beta male rage and weak minded tribalism.

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#43

Post by xg15 »

pfortuny wrote: post #25
koakuma-chan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly It's the same for anime, and guess what, I just pirate and pay no one.

Yes, but the problem is that you want to watch football live, and LaLiga is harming lots of unrelated businesses with this approach.

Couldn't they sue LaLiga for damages? Only because a court grants you some power you aren't absolved from the responsibilities that come with that power, or are you?

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#44

Post by teekert »

Krssst wrote: post #37
koakuma-chan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly It's the same for anime, and guess what, I just pirate and pay no one.

To be fair for anime you can get pretty good coverage with only crunchyroll and a minimal price. Though some significant shows often end up locked on random services unfortunately.

To get subs in my language I do have to go to go-anime. Which is btw pretty bad (sometimes you have to reload 30 times before something starts, summaries are wrong, no chromecasting, etc.)

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#46

Post by maeln »

Krssst wrote: post #37
koakuma-chan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they have split the football game rights among different competitors, so that if you want to watch every game you have to spend >100€ monthly It's the same for anime, and guess what, I just pirate and pay no one.

To be fair for anime you can get pretty good coverage with only crunchyroll and a minimal price. Though some significant shows often end up locked on random services unfortunately.

> To be fair for anime you can get pretty good coverage with only crunchyroll and a minimal price

Depending on if crunchyroll is available in your region :) . And they have some truly awful subtitles for some shows.

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#47

Post by pzlarsson »

teekert wrote: post #38
iamzenitraM wrote: post #31

Some of us are tracking their blocking over at: https://hayahora.futbol https://tinyuptime.sconde.net It's not only Cloudflare, but also other not so tiny CDNs are being blocked - currently an entire Backblaze B2 region is blocked in 3 out of 5 ISPs (!). Particularly hurtful, the entire Cloudflare R2 is blocked during football matches so you can't pull Docker images or Ollama models.

Man, and I was already annoyed that my tax money went to extra police to prevent idiots from fighting and wrecking stuff around matches. I for one think that football streaming should be blocked when I'm pulling docker images ;)

The amount of resources that goes into soccer in many countries is really astonishing. It can be seen as a modern equivalent to bread and circuses however.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

#48

Post by iMerNibor »

CodesInChaos wrote: post #40

I find it interesting that cloudflare is okay with those piracy sites getting its shared IPs blocked, while a couple of years ago they forced a casino to shell out for the enterprise plan and dedicated IPs to contain the fallout of banned IPs.

I would assume they'd just decline and shut operations for that particular domain and create a new domain/account on cloudflare for the new site?

Not sure how attached these sites are to their specific brand/domain (or if this is indirect where main sites link to other sites that host the video)

Post reply on HN