Judge Confirms LaLiga's Right to Block Cloudflare in Pursuit of IPTV Pirates.
Judge Confirms LaLiga's Right to Block Cloudflare in Pursuit of IPTV Pirates.
A judge has rejected requests by Cloudflare and hacker group RootedCon to overturn LaLiga's authority to incidentally block innocent users.
Last December, a Spanish judge authorized LaLiga to block Cloudflare's shared IP addresses to combat piracy. Thousands of innocent internet users were affected, prompting Cloudflare and cybersecurity group RootedCon to ask the court to overturn the order. A judge has now denied both requests, stating that no evidence was presented to show that blocking caused any damage.
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Heh,
how about forcing LaLiga to show evidence about damages? Because surely everyone who pirated their content would have paid if free streams weren't available, right guys???
This is about their right to block a range of IP addresses. I don't think they're suing for damages.
Yes but AFAIK they have that right because they argued they were losing a lot of money to pirates.
Imagine having the audacity to claim that you're losing money to pirates and thus were justified in blocking Cloudflare IPs, and then claiming that there were no damages done to Cloudflare et al by your actions. The only way this makes sense is it Cloudflare is the only method by which people access pirate streams. What the actual fuck.
Yeah it doesn't make any sense. They're just blocking pretty big parts of the internet all at once, of which most was probably not even illegal content to begin with, and might have been actual legitimate businesses that are now blocked from selling anything online there.
This will also help lessen the monopoly cloud flair has in Spain