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

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Post by nh23423fefe »

kelsey98765431 wrote: post #201
Aurornis wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every new service is a colossal headache to set up payment, remember to cancel payment if you only wanted to see the single event and have no need for the service the rest of the year, find what's playing on what when I just don't find these arguments convincing after watching my friend spend cumulative hours upon hours jumping between pirate streaming services trying to find a stable feed for every game. This feel…

it's shocking to me that you refuse to see that the "awful experience" your friend has is not better than what they give people who pay. are you a billionaire literally out of touch with reality and the cost of living?

insane response. feign shock, lie, insult, non sequitur

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

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Post by watwut »

geodel wrote: post #194
bix6 wrote: post #174

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Netflix, Disney, HBO, Amazon, Apple, Movistar, DAZN. $100/mo estimate for that combo in Spain.

If watching this much videos from such large array of services is that important for a family I am sure they can easily cut down on other leisure and entertainment and come up just fine.

They dont need to wach "much videos". The argument is about "specific movies and series".

And for that, there are three options: piracy, pay many services, constantly juggle sign ins and sign outs.

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

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Post by artyom »

If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense:

- Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway.

- There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN"

- Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

- There's not really huge internet companies there that can lobby the other way around (e.g. infrastructure collapse because of the block).

So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.

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

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Post by tialaramex »

b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #204
keybored wrote: post #52

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If they pass laws “with impunity” you can’t blame the voters that hard.

the voters don't vote on issues, and there are no consequences for breaking campaign promises. and direct democracy is le bad, of course (since Brexit).

Direct Democracy is bad because even if people were capable of doing the hard work to actually decide on coherent trade-offs, for which there is precious little evidence, they do not have time which means we should hire a few people to do that hard work, and that's what an Indirect Democracy is.

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

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Post by quantummagic »

cedws wrote: post #73
0x_rs wrote: post #42

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 goin…

The EU is in favour of this kind of rubbish, as is the UK. We need to kick these idiots out of power.

And replace them with other idiots, who also support this rubbish? There isn't anyone who has sanity and decency, as their platform.

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

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Post by hirako2000 »

falcor84 wrote: post #130
hirako2000 wrote: post #112

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Except that it isn't true. Candycrush (CrunchyRoll of course) had gained the love of the anime crowd. Until they started to "optimise" bandwidth. It wasn't a pricing error as subscription price didn't increase. They claim the degradation was perceptible. Except that it was. It was many years ago, and since then candycrush lost subscribers. It won't because illegal streaming platforms got better, simply because the il…

Candycrush? I suppose you mean Crunchyroll, right?

That's right. Pervasive games got into my head.

As the other commenter, I also confirm the sub got worse.

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

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Post by littlecranky67 »

Quick reminder, it is not LaLiga (the football association) taking court action, but Telefónica the telco provider. In Spain their brand is Movistar, in UK and Germany more commonly known as O2. So there is something we, the consumer, can do - avoid all products Telefónica, in Spain and elsewhere to express the want for a free and uncensored internet.
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