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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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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Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.
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Trump threatens to double #Spain’s trade deal after their socialist PM refuses to increase #NATO defense spending.
A Spanish reporter asked if Trump was OK with PM Pedro Sánchez refusing to raise defense spending to 5%.
“Oh, I think Spain’s terrible what they’ve done. No, I do, they’re the only country that won’t pay the full up. They want to stay at 2%. I think it’s terrible.”
“And you know, they’re doing very well. The economy is very well. And that economy could be blown right out of the water with something bad happening.”
“So we’ll make it up. You know what we’re going to do? We’re negotiating with Spain on a trade deal. We’re going to make them pay twice as much.”
“And I’m actually serious about that.”
“But Spain is the only country out of all of the countries that refuses to pay. And, you know, so they want a little bit of a free ride, but they’ll have to pay it back to us on trade because I’m not going to let that happen.”
#fdt
A Spanish reporter asked if Trump was OK with PM Pedro Sánchez refusing to raise defense spending to 5%.
“Oh, I think Spain’s terrible what they’ve done. No, I do, they’re the only country that won’t pay the full up. They want to stay at 2%. I think it’s terrible.”
“And you know, they’re doing very well. The economy is very well. And that economy could be blown right out of the water with something bad happening.”
“So we’ll make it up. You know what we’re going to do? We’re negotiating with Spain on a trade deal. We’re going to make them pay twice as much.”
“And I’m actually serious about that.”
“But Spain is the only country out of all of the countries that refuses to pay. And, you know, so they want a little bit of a free ride, but they’ll have to pay it back to us on trade because I’m not going to let that happen.”
#fdt