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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

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Post by embedding-shape »

mmh0000 wrote: post #7
shevy-java wrote: post #2

So 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".

> TL;DR: Spain blocks A LOT of CDNs during footy matches, including ALL of Cloudflare

AFAIK, I don't think it's "A LOT of CDNs", it's only Cloudflare, at least personally Cloudflare is the only CDN I can verify I lose access to during the football matches.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by bombcar »

lamasery wrote: post #17
mmh0000 wrote: post #7

Earlier 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)

It's La Liga - Spain should just nationalize them and make it a division of the government.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by nradov »

It's always hilarious to see HN users claim how the "quality of life" is so much better in the EU than the USA. When in reality most of them only ever visit a handful of EU first-tier cities for short vacations or business trips, and never have to deal with the reality of living and working under an oppressive bureaucratic state.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by lionkor »

neilv wrote: post #16

Too 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.

I can't feel bad when the subscription circumvention uses the same method they use to get their stuff to rank high in search results. News pages want their content indexed, so they can pull a bait and switch.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by embedding-shape »

bombcar wrote: post #23
lamasery wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

It's La Liga - Spain should just nationalize them and make it a division of the government.

Or follow the example of the Barcelona football club and make it be owned by the fans and supporters themselves instead.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by anthk »

VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Should also block themselves from dubbing stuff into spanish, they are horrible, thanks god southamerica has many talented spanish dubbers

Don't let me start on your 'neutral' dub where everything reminds me on either Cantinflas or El Chavo.

Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

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Post by llbbdd »

Assuming that "piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem" is still the prevailing wisdom, what is Spain / La Liga doing wrong that sports piracy is so prevalent as to warrant this? It seems like a no-brainer to expand stream availability and charge appropriately for it vs. scheduling daily kneecaps of other economic activity.
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