Comment on Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites "fighting" against piracy streaming

marretics@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s by IP:

  The maths is brutal. On a match day, blocking just 4 to 20 IP addresses knocked out more than 400,000 unrelated domains. The outage lasted as long as the game.

  None of this is new in kind, only in scale. Courts across Europe have long ordered providers to block pirate sites. Spain runs one of the continent’s most aggressive regimes. What has changed is the plumbing. The web now runs on shared infrastructure, so a crude IP block is a shotgun, not a scalpel.

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• TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They basically block off Cloudflare while there is a game going on.

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• tagoth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Basically internet providers are blocking a range of IPs, so DNS does not matter.

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