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Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

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Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

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Refering to football as foot egg when it’s actually a ball as opposed to the hand egg in the US is weird to me. OT: La Liga shouldn’t have this kind of power and it’s good to see the court take a stance

They call American football handegg, we should be able to do the opposite. :P

The opposite would be foot ball. Although both are petty as anyway both are called it because it is played on foot with a ball. Not because you use your foot to kick a ball.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Refering to football as foot egg when it’s actually a ball as opposed to the hand egg in the US is weird to me. OT: La Liga shouldn’t have this kind of power and it’s good to see the court take a stance

They call American football handegg, we should be able to do the opposite. :P

Which is foot ball. Not foot egg.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#13
post #9

Sue the courts for telecomms interruption and tampering from LaLiga.

You can't sue a court in a court for doing court stuff. Courts are superuser. They can do anything they want to. The recourse is vetting people before they become judges.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#14
post #7

Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.

That is why they blocked the whole internet. You can't avoid a block by changing your address if the whole internet is blocked.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#15
post #7

Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.

That is why they blocked the whole internet. You can't avoid a block by changing your address if the whole internet is blocked.

They didn't mean to, just they were incompetent. Also considering Spanish league is spread over the full long weekend a waste of time.

However this is why infrastructure and connection method is needing to be removed from the government by creation and adoption of alternatives such as mesh.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#16
post #9

Sue the courts for telecomms interruption and tampering from LaLiga.

You can't sue a court in a court for doing court stuff. Courts are superuser. They can do anything they want to. The recourse is vetting people before they become judges.

This seems dysfunctional and a API for institutional subversion. If you can subvert the machinery that creates judges, you can basically take over a democracy without having any way to fix that except for institutional repair and waiting out the working lifespan of judges (which can be 1.5 generations)

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Refering to football as foot egg when it’s actually a ball as opposed to the hand egg in the US is weird to me. OT: La Liga shouldn’t have this kind of power and it’s good to see the court take a stance

They call American football handegg, we should be able to do the opposite. :P

The opposite of "hand egg" is not "foot egg".

And the point is that the object played in "American Football" is not a ball. Balls are round. It is egg shaped. The object played in "Football" is a ball. Describing the ball in football as an egg just makes you look like you can't see properly.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

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post #18

Finally, some common sense in this utterly absurd situation. I'm so glad this year's "fútbol" season ends this weekend. AFAIK, they don't break the Internet for Segunda División matches (yet!).

Oh boy do I have news for you; they're thinking of doing the same for other sports now too, not just football :) At least the blocks only been for a small amount of Cloudflare IPs, but still sucks big time.

Re: Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

#20
post #7

Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.

That is why they blocked the whole internet. You can't avoid a block by changing your address if the whole internet is blocked.

Who blocked the whole internet? Doesn't happen here in Spain, which is the context for this submission, is "blocked the whole internet" what they do in the UK?
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