It appears Cloudflare is responding to a legal requirement to implement this IP blocking.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...
Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
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Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is precisely the situation that the internet was designed to prevent Right, but on the other hand, our constitution and laws are supposed to give us the rights to access a internet where the government cannot block entire companies who host websites, because a few bad websites are hosted there. Not to mention all us freelancers, contractors and just in general computing users, who sometimes want to continue wo…
The LaLiga post seem to accuse Cloudflare of unlawful activity directly by protecting criminals, not just the illegal streamers. At least my reading (of Google translation) is that they target Cloudflare here and it works "as expected" since Cloudflare is the bad guys.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure why it shouldn't be cloudflare job to make sure they don't host illegal content. If my super market keeps distributing illegal goods, even if they remove it after a court order, they will end up having to close the whole market. Either they should police the content they serve themselves or they accept the right holders to do it (which sucks for everyone). Also they certainly willing take all their custo…
https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/ Anyone can report illegal content on Cloudflare and Cloudflare will remove it. The pirate streaming sites pop up only in or just before the first few moments of the game, and LaLiga insists they must be removed instantly in order to prevent their losses. So what they actually want is preemptive removal without meaningful human review or anything else that could ta…
> ” what they actually want is preemptive removal without meaningful human review or anything else that could take 10 minutes.”
Yet this would actually be a better solution for everyone (except the pirates).
10 minutes seems like a reasonable response time that would allow a chance for human review. No football fan wants to have their viewing interrupted because they used a dodgy pirate site to watch it. Currently, pirates can simply use a VPN to get around the IP-level block while the huge collateral damage affects legitimate Cloudflare users.
Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#414Thats crazy
Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would if it were bigger business in your country. Try torrenting an MCU movie and see what happens to your ISP account.
Out of curiosity, what does happen?
Your ISP sends you a "strike" letter, and eventually cancels your service if you continue to receive them.
Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#416Reading this from India, where stuff like this is pretty much Tuesday business. But that’s not the problem; the problem is precisely the one hour of your life spent trying to figure out whether the issue is your DNS, your VPN, your configuration, or your programming. “The government in the country I’m accessing this from just decided to shut down my IP for the next two hours” rarely crosses your mind. India has consi…
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Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#417Very good example as to why using a single, centralised proxy globally by all services is a bad idea. Docker would never have a reason to block anything if they were simply running their own. For everyone else, small and big, this is the weekly reminder to not use Cloudflare for user-facing access to anything.
The amount of traffic that must go through the docker hub, must be insane, the images go into the gigabytes and everyone expects it to be super fast. Cloudflare is one of the few companies who can handle that for relatively cheap, Docker could not just "run their own" and have it even be compareable.
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Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ireland, the country with 2 center right parties that differ with regards to patronage networks and political history from 1940, is one of the most left-wing leaning countries in Europe?
Eh, ireland is unique in that it has a centre-right coalition making it de facto one party. The main opposition, Sinn Fein, is about the same size as Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and might overtake Fine Gael at some point
Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries in Europe?
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, ireland is unique in that it has a centre-right coalition making it de facto one party. The main opposition, Sinn Fein, is about the same size as Fine Gael and Fianna Fail and might overtake Fine Gael at some point
Right. So, no left wing party, not even a center left party, has been in power in Ireland in its history. But I'm supposed to believe that it's one of the most left wing countries in Europe?
in spirit it is, at least at its core. The irish revolution and civil war had strong socialist undertones
Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
You forgot to mention that some of the people behind the catalonian independence movement met with Russians who even offered military support if they went ahead with a proclamation of independency. I think we should all move on from that bizarre situation.
You forgot to mention that that was a lie. Spain quietly drops probe into “Russian meddling” in Catalan referendum: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/21/cata-j21.html
Oh it must be if that site says so…