This is the most Spanish thing of all time.
Mandatory siesta.
My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
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Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm bias. Born and raised in England, the nation of football, and I loathe football. The hooligan shenanigans we cause in other countries pisses me off. There is no respect. I got pushed on the subway the other day because of some local match. Some drunken twat thought I was someone who supported the rival opposition and nearly dragged me off the opposite escalator. I can't wait for football to die, I partake in spor…
Totally fine. Still no need to spread FUD/misinformation.
Misrepresentation, yes. Neither FUD nor Misinformation when it's quoted out of the article
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is.
The escape hatch with all personal data processing is "legitimate interest". Consent is a big part of it, but an industry with sufficiently deep legal pockets would likely go down the route of "legitimate interest" if cornered. I'm not a legal professional. I just work next to this stuff.
That's not what legitimate interest is supposed to mean though.
Legitimate interest is about collection of data necessary to operate your service.
Listening to detect if someone in a user's surrounding is showing a match without license has nothing to do with the function of the application. There's no legitimate interest there.
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#144>they randomly ban cloudflare IP ranges.
It's not random. Many pirate sites use Cloudflare and Cloudflare does not do a good enough job of taking them down which enables pirating of the sport broadcast.
Routing your game traffic through a CDN is not normal anyways.
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're a Cloudflare customer who suffers damages when LaLiga obtains a DNS block for Cloudflare IPs used for pirate streams, you'll have better chances suing Cloudflare for failing to provide the service you're paying them for (of course if you're on a free plan, you don't have much of a leg to stand on). One Cloudflare customer doing something illegal is only able to cause this much collateral damage because Clou…
I'm not an ardent defender of Cloudflare by any means, but there is no grounds to sue Cloudflare. Their service is up. Their IP ranges are getting blocked by residential ISPs. How would that be Cloudflare's fault?
>How would that be Cloudflare's fault?
Because the reason they are getting blocked is because of the actions Cloudflare is taking. If cloudflare would stop streaming these pirate broadcasts, the blocking would stop. These blocks are not just random.
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#146Related (7 years ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8q1j0o/la_liga_uses... - Bars, pubs and other public establishments have to pay around 200€/month in order to show football on their TVs while the household package goes between 10 and 30€/month. - The official app, with over 10 million downloads, asks you for microphone and GPS permissions. - La Liga remotely activates the microphone and tries to detect…
> - Bars, pubs and other public establishments have to pay around 200€/month in order to show football on their TVs while the household package goes between 10 and 30€/month. This is common in Europe in general, also for copyrighted music. If your establishment wants to play recorded music, even just playing the radio or Spotify on the background, a copyright royalty fee has to be paid. Applies to all venues and even…
What about this music from these free pages which are flooding the internet? There is plenty of royality free music? (e.g. used by youtubers?)
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#147Earlier 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 Same in Germany. > newest generations aren't giving a shit anymore about football Also the same in Germany. But I am not sure which direction the causality goes. Maybe people are less interested in football because of the shenanigans they are constantly pulling. Or maybe they…
Most leagues face the same issue: just one to three wealthy clubs dominate, winning around 70–80% of the time, which makes the competition less exciting. The German Bundesliga is one of the starkest examples: Bayern Munich has taken 16 of the last 20 titles.
haha, andy why is that?
Because of ridiculous transfer rules & markets - if these would be killed, there would be much more competition, and it was that way, 20-30+ years ago....
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#148Earlier 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 Same in Germany. > newest generations aren't giving a shit anymore about football Also the same in Germany. But I am not sure which direction the causality goes. Maybe people are less interested in football because of the shenanigans they are constantly pulling. Or maybe they…
> Same in Germany. That's not right. Still expensive, but the dual abo for Sky Bundesliga + DAZN is 65€ per month.[1] 1 https://www.sky.de/pakete-produkte/sky-dazn
65€ for watching _only_ football/soccer, Jesus :-D
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#149Related (7 years ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8q1j0o/la_liga_uses... - Bars, pubs and other public establishments have to pay around 200€/month in order to show football on their TVs while the household package goes between 10 and 30€/month. - The official app, with over 10 million downloads, asks you for microphone and GPS permissions. - La Liga remotely activates the microphone and tries to detect…
Private corporations acting like police, engaging in illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping at massive scales to detect and punish crimes as defined by themselves. We truly are living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It's clearly not illegal.
Re: My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Private corporations acting like police, engaging in illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping at massive scales to detect and punish crimes as defined by themselves. We truly are living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
It's clearly not illegal.
That's what makes it a dystopia