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Comment · 6 months ago
Do you have a better idea?
Comment · 6 months ago
Almost all of their customers are using the free, high-risk tier, because it's free.
Comment · 6 months ago
Cloudflare wasn't asked to do anything. LaLiga went straight to the courts to demand all ISPs in the country to block Cloudflare.
Comment · 6 months ago
This law on banks is a bad law. It doesn't stop money laundering, it does make it hard for lots of people to have bank accounts. We should abolish that law, not copy it.
Comment · 6 months ago
Why are the IPs the relevant things? There are domains as well. And origin servers. Why not block the domain or the origin server, which wouldn't have collateral damage.
Comment · 6 months ago
They reply to subpoenas just like everyone else. But that's too slow for the greedy fat cats at LaLiga.
Comment · 6 months ago
You're the customer of your ISP who's the customer of another ISP who's the customer of another ISP who Hacker News is a customer of.

The Digital Markets Act speaks of "conduits" instead of speaking of the specific form the conduits may take. It does not give special rights to someone who forwards IP packets unmodified or to someone who receives IP packets and reissues other IP packets or to someone who changes the IP addresses in the packets. It only cares about the net effect of the transmission, and the fact is that Cloudflare is a conduit with caching.

Comment · 6 months ago
Their supreme court allowed it. Their congress is now overturning it.
Comment · 6 months ago
The court can order Cloudflare to block a website, but that isn't what the court did.
Comment · 6 months ago
It's related because it does the same thing.
Comment · 6 months ago
My ISP obfuscates my location by replacing it with an IP address . However, if the government wants to know my location, they can ask my ISP to find out a physical address based on an IP address. They can also ask Cloudflare to find out an origin IP address based on a domain name. This is normal. It's also slow. The Spanish government doesn't want to bother arresting pirates, it would rather be seen doing something about the problem, without doing something about the problem.
Comment · 6 months ago
A VPS?
Comment · 6 months ago
Nothing stops the government from ordering Cloudflare to reveal the origin IP addresses of websites and then tracking them down and arresting them. They just don't want to. Cloudflare complies with court orders but the government doesn't think that's good enough. The government wants Cloudflare to be the internet police.
Comment · 6 months ago
Local privilege escalation in your browser is a danger. They can also abuse any privileges you gave to the website, such as camera and microphone.
Comment · 6 months ago
Do they not have a charge of "tortious interference with business" in civil law like in common law? It's where one company just goes out of their way to fuck up your business for no good reason.

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