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Cloudflare's customers are distributing copyrighted material. That's basic copyright law, and the host and distributor can easily take it offline after a court
by Symbiote 2y ago
Cloudflare's customers are distributing copyrighted material. That's basic copyright law, and the host and distributor can easily take it offline after a court request.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoYour response assumes I want to see sites distributing copyrighted soccer games taken down, rather than cheered on.
- joshuaissac 2y agoThe courts are unlikely to cheer on such websites, though. For better or worse, copyright law exists in Spain, and it will be enforced either with Cloudflare's co-operation (Cloudflare blocking infringing websites) or without (ISPs blocking Cloudflare IPs).
- JoshTriplett 2y agoWhat I'm hoping for, here, is a case along the lines of "this court order has been used irresponsibly, with no regard for collateral damage, and has blocked sites such as GitHub, X, Y, and Z, which have nothing to do with the purpose of the court order; the court order should be rescinded".
- joshuaissac 2y agoAccording to another commenter here, the court order specifically stated that unrelated websites should not be blocked, so La Liga is potentially in breach of the court order, and could be on the hook for a lot of money in damages, should the injured parties decide to pursue it.
- Frederation 2y agoBit of a strawman, yea? Copyrighted material is flung from one end of the Earth to the other from thousands of places and you want to single out a single entity? How's that 3rd grade education working for ya?