Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blockages-by-laliga/

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pulimento•51m ago

hope that doesn't end on "monitoring the situation" and doing nothing. entire cloudflare IP blocks are being blocked, even on work days

e1g•32m ago

We actually had to revert our rollout of CF Workers because enough of our users were in Spain and couldn’t access endpoints at seemingly arbitrary times (due to the matches)

bombcar•44m ago

An IT peon at La Liga has the chance to do the funniest thing …

pier25•42m ago

Finally. The situation is ridiculous and afaik it really didn't do anything to solve the piracy problem.

superjose•29m ago

1000% I got legit Cloudflare Workers Anycast IPs that I was using for websockets blocked.

I also got blocked from using RustDesk.

It's been crazy. As this happens intermittently. I had to set up a tailscale exit node in one of my servers to circumvent this crap. I lost several days and called Vodafone (ISP) to understand what was going on.

That's when I read Reddit and saw that crap.

sparrish•38m ago

Play stupid games... win stupid prizes.

The judicial, nation-wide blocks on CDN IPs is absurd and should have never been allowed.

pfortuny•37m ago

That shows the power of the Spanish FA and Telefonica together.

officialchicken•26m ago

Great, this means Telefonica reliability goes from zero nines to still below zero nines.

loloquwowndueo•22m ago

Joining a select club that includes GitHub and Anthropic yay

matteason•25m ago

Context: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches

https://cybernews.com/news/spain-laliga-streaming-piracy-cam...

inglor_cz•14m ago

I fervently hope that no one manages to obtain a similar judgment at the pan-EU level, that would be a disaster.

dmitrygr•7m ago

I actually hope they do. this will force a proper reckoning about the situation and maybe a proper fix.

WhyNotHugo•5m ago

At that scale, it might make Cloudflare customers reconsider their affiliations. It might not be as terrible.

By affecting only Spain, the impact is too small for most websites to care.

oliverx0•18m ago

Finally. For anyone affected by this, I have been using Clouflare WARP successfully to bypass this block.

noIdeaTheSecond•7m ago

I understand organizations as LaLiga wanting more money but massive IP blockage seems quite unfair, effective maybe but unfair so this news does not come as a surprise.

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