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

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Post by tokai »

nradov wrote: post #26

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.

In other news NY is working on banning air guns that are not transparent or brightly colored and have plugged barrels. Yes plugged, making them useless.

Which oppressive bureaucratic state are we talking about again?

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

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Post by 0x_rs »

Seems obvious at this point there needs to be EU-level regulations against individual countries, such as Spain and Italy, implementing these absurd restrictions. It would at least make lobbying from those sports companies more difficult. These same companies have been pushing for banning VPNs -- consumer VPNs -- as they easily circumvent half the internet going dark because of some dumb sports event, and they're going to be targeted next when everyone's using them. It doesn't help "piracy" always ends up being an excellent excuse to undermine everyone's privacy.

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

gspr wrote: post #35
lode wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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://blo…

I wonder when businesses will start suing ISPs for the losses they incur while they're cut off from half the internet.

No one here is being "cut off from the internet" during the blocks, you grossly misunderstand what's happening here.

If you're on a residential connection, during play of the matches, you can't access any of the Cloudflare IPs, but everything else keeps working as-is. Most businesses already migrated away from Cloudflare once these blocks started happening, so most of the affected people are the ones using services that rely on Cloudflare.

As mentioned elsewhere, don't get me wrong, it sucks, makes no sense and I wish it went away, and I'll keep complaining to the ones I can about it, but "they're cut off from half the internet" isn't accurate unless somehow half the services you use happen to rely on Cloudflare (which, at least for me, isn't true, maybe 10% of what I use daily is affected by this).

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

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Post by abirch »

jwr wrote: post #9

This is incredibly stupid, but don't laugh at Spaniards: your (and my) lawmakers are equally likely to enact similarly stupid laws. It's mind-boggling how stupid the world can be sometimes.

They pass stupid laws with impunity here in America.

Sadly, an alien viewing our behavior would deduce a rule such as: as long as the voter is the same tribe as the candidate, the voter must vote for candidate no matter how corrupt.

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

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Post by stackghost »

nradov wrote: post #26

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.

The USA consistently ranks outside the top 10 countries in Quality of Life by any reputable metric.

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

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Post by rwyinuse »

nradov wrote: post #26

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.

Well, there are lots of EU countries where governments aren't as idiotic as that of Spain, and where bureaucracy is mostly under control as well.

As a citizen of a Nordic country I would never want to live in America, except maybe if I was rich. Especially for people with children my country offers a superior quality of life in many ways.

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

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Post by anonzzzies »

nradov wrote: post #26

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.

Rage bait as it is; please stay over there in the US, I will stay here in Spain. I will live with this 'opression' that I have to read about on HN to notice. All good!
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