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Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
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Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#13So what does this mean in english?
See this story from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883
Basically, to combat pirate streaming of football matches, La Liga (the Spanish football association) can compel Spanish ISPs to block wide ranges of IP blocks that are suspected of hosting those streams.
This includes Cloudflare, which - due to lots of websites depending on them (see what happened when they went down last year: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ ) feels like half of the internet is unusable. This happens weekly when football is on.
Now it looks like those bans are going to become even more frequent, which will have all kinds of unintended consequences.
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#14Should also block themselves from dubbing stuff into spanish, they are horrible, thanks god southamerica has many talented spanish dubbers
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#15So what does this mean in english?
Main ISP in Spain dynamically blocks IP it suspects sharing sport competition live streams. Began with football, now extended to other sports. Impact on legitimate traffic is real.
It’s multiple ISPs though. A judge sentence commands them to do it. Insane, I know.
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#16Too bad the article isn't paywalled, or it could be a moment to have a talk about HN's own standard-operating-procedure piracy.
When it comes to piracy and anti-piracy, there is greed and stupidity on all sides.
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#17So what does this mean in english?
Context, a few days ago, this was a very popular article on HN: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883 TL;DR: Spain blocks A LOT of CDNs during footy matches, including ALL of Cloudflare, thus breaking most of the internet. All in the name of stopping "pirates".
I wonder how close they are in broad economic damage to it being cheaper to just pay FIFA or whomever for some kind of nationwide viewing license (which they'd surely be able to negotiate way lower than a simple "cost to view every match, times count of Spanish residents" since that's nowhere near as much as they're getting out of Spain now)
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#18Should also block themselves from dubbing stuff into spanish, they are horrible, thanks god southamerica has many talented spanish dubbers
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Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Context, a few days ago, this was a very popular article on HN: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883 TL;DR: Spain blocks A LOT of CDNs during footy matches, including ALL of Cloudflare, thus breaking most of the internet. All in the name of stopping "pirates".
I wonder how close they are in broad economic damage to it being cheaper to just pay FIFA or whomever for some kind of nationwide viewing license (which they'd surely be able to negotiate way lower than a simple "cost to view every match, times count of Spanish residents" since that's nowhere near as much as they're getting out of Spain now)
Movistar are paying a billion dollars a year, so probably a long way away
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