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Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

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Re: Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

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Post by refulgentis »

andrepd wrote: post #2

Very telling how the article ends with a snippet about how the previous season had record-breaking revenues and how La Liga is one of the most profitable sports competitions in the world. It is never enough.

It's bad to steal things and we should try to prevent it.

(I'm generally pro-piracy and don't know the details here, but am also old enough for "the people like MONEY" to not be a particularly noteworthy quality. The things that jump out to me here are A) is Cloudflare's attempted implication that they just need a better injunction true? B) The sophomoric argument that "people will die due to this" is my "people like MONEY" smell)

Re: Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

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Post by stackedinserter »

I never watched sports but my kids want to, so tried to buy them subscription to some sport broadcaster.

Bundesliga, F1, NHL and FIFA world cup, that's all I (they) needed.

It turned to total mess. Service A shows F1 but not NHL. Service B shows NHL but not all NHL, only games where my city team plays. Some show LaLiga but not Bundesliga. All cost $30/mo but still show ads. Periodically they show ads instead of the event. If they can't, they split screen show the event in a little rectangle that's 25% of screen space. Dazn, TSN, ESPN are all total scam. You can see a lot of bull riding though.

We cancelled all this nonsense and just moved to pirate sites. Screw this bs.

Re: Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives

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Post by jsheard »

otterley wrote: post #7

Why does CloudFlare have these problems and other CDNs like CloudFront and Akamai don’t?

CloudFlare is free/cheap, has (AFAIK) no KYC policy, and is generally unresponsive to abuse reports unless the courts get involved, so it's the default choice for nearly all piracy sites, phishing sites, DDoS providers, etc. The few which do get kicked out of CF generally have to resort to dubious Russian CDNs because none of the other mainstream CDNs will have them.
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