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.

  • Hastur
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    214 hours ago

    Clownflare taking an L and LaLiga looking like a bunch if mafiosi-assholes? That’s a win-win scenario.

  • @Kayana@ttrpg.network
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    553 days ago

    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???

    • @moody@lemmings.world
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      73 days ago

      This is about their right to block a range of IP addresses. I don’t think they’re suing for damages.

      • Ghoelian
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        52 days ago

        Yes but AFAIK they have that right because they argued they were losing a lot of money to pirates.

        • @sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech
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          32 days ago

          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.

          • Ghoelian
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            32 days ago

            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.