Comment on Spain is blocking unrelated internet addresses because of soccer

phorq@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Soccer in Spain (and also in Italy) has enough power to bend the laws to their will.

  Right now, soccer is available almost exclusively through paid channels (that are not cheap, in italy it costs around 50€ month and that won’t give you all the soccer, because some games are exclusive to other paid channels].

  This makes people rely on piracy because of how expensive and bad the system is.

  Since the soccer is so powerful, it can block innocent pages just to block people from watching soccer for free.

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  • jojo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    (And also in Portugal)
    Welcome to south Europe (I guess)!

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    • needanke@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Germany did this too up until a month ago lemmy.bestiver.se/post/573659 .

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