Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives; "I Pray No One Dies"

1. La Liga (Spanish #football mafia) finds pirates streaming their games objectionable

2. They notice that many of these streamers use #Cloudflare for something, presumably #CDN and load balancing.

3. They appear in court in #Spain and get an ex-parte TRO blocking all Cloudflare IPs. (Ex parte TRO: restraining order granted without Cloudflare being summoned to court)

4. Based on this, they tell ISPs to block pretty much all of Cloudflare in Spain.

5. Cloudflare goes public in frustration, noting that they could just send take down requests for infringing content like every other rights holder in the world, and that many Spanish utilities and civil resources use Cloudflare.

Interesting. My gut is that it’s hard to beat La Liga on their home turf, as evidenced by not even being invited to the court hearings which shut you down across all of Spain.

Long term, I’d guess CF wins this one? Probably they will have to escalate in some way to Eurozone courts, although I have no idea how this might work. No cloud business could meet the standard put forward by La Liga; but also there are only so many CDN companies. Meantime I guess illegal streamers can move to Google and see which legal group wins that battle.

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ceo-football-piracy-blocks-will-claim-lives-i-pray-no-one-dies-250526/

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