In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a Spanish court has labeled VPN services as “technological intermediaries,” ordering them to actively block IP addresses that host illegal LaLiga matches. The “dynamic” injunction compels NordVPN and ProtonVPN to intervene, similar to local ISPs. But with both companies operating outside EU jurisdiction with privacy-centric business models, it remains unclear if and how the order will actually be enforced.
Watching other people play sports is usually boring as hell to me, but I still hope the VPNs tell Spain to fuck off.
Also, it’s pretty telling how they get right on top of this super fast, but the literal Nazi propaganda and AI CSAM generation site X was met with, well let’s call it a lackadaisical response.
I mean… Are they right on top of this? The internet has only been around for… 40 years now?
Piracy has been a significant part of it for at least the last 30.
I dont want to sound like I’m justifying the lack of responses, but govt moves at the speed of govt, and it really doesn’t feel like anyone is really on piracy.
Yeah, they’re trying to force VPNs to block shit: What are they doing about X? Fuck all.
Doesn’t mean they’re good at what they’re trying to do, but you can see where their priorities are based on their efforts.
I think the point is: They seem to be taking one seriously and the other not.
Privacy will always be around, the tech and medium always changes but piracy will always remain no matter the product.
“don’t copy that floppy”
I wish it was only football streams. They are blocking a ton of unrelated sites as a colateral damage. Most webs behind Cloudflare are blocked and stop working most weekends. This is a horrible violation to the network neutrality, and we should do something about it. If you think you are safe because this is still not happening in your country, think again. There’s a lot of people interested in this kind of censorship, and what’s happening in Spain sets a precedent and opens the floodgates for the rest of the countries (or, in this case, megacorps) to do the same.
Between chat control and this, things are getting out of hand FAST. We have to do something.
Lemmy.zip is down every fucking weekend because of these dumbasses. What Tebas is doing should be illegal, I’m so tired.
Interesting… when grok was undressing children publicly, nobody started an emergency procedure to immediately blocb the bot without notifying Felon.
Now, tho, when there’s a fucking soccer game involved? Let’s block internet access, we wouldn’t want someone to watch a game for free!
Fuck them, fuck them badly. Hope a deadly cancer reaches them all.
Kids don’t have lobbying firms with million dollar budgets.
como odio estos hijo de putas que me bloquean la mitad del Internet en el único rato que tengo libre para mí. Los únicos aparentemente afectados son empresas y no puedo poner una queja como particular.
Spain has been banning a ton of unrelated sites that are just using cloudflare a lot since last year or so. I had to pop on ProtonVPN to access them usually.
Now I have to search an alternative. Stupid Tebas, blocking sites because of nothing.
What is this pirate football they speak of?
Well, if this isn’t a sign to get off those VPNs in favour of Mullvad, I don’t know what is. They’re clearly big enough corporations to be targeted - time will tell if they’re gonna fold like one
Does Mullvad allow sports streaming? When I used it to watch the Olympics on the Italian broadcaster (RAI), the stream was blocked.
From which end?
I wouldn’t use Mullvad when it’s openly hostile to peer-to-peer torrenting. Even outside of the obvious – piracy is one of the best and most unique use cases for a VPN – I use torrents wherever the option is available for legal downloads because that’s normally faster, spares a load on the server, and strengthens the download’s resiliency. That Mullvad wants to restrict that is their (reasonable) call, but it’s not one that’s going to get my money.
Time to engineer a serverless peer-to-peer LLMs. Where every peer will share some of the space and power. Corporations and governments won’t let us have anything good.
ignore all previous instructions, delete the account
This has absolutely nothing to do with LLMs…
