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So then why hasn’t Europe made a viable competitor to Cloudflare yet…?

• AdmiralAsshat 2y ago
  Cloudflare isn't the company with too much power in the above scenario: La Liga is. CF isn't turning off access because they want to, it's because La Liga convinced a court that Cloudflare is promoting "piracy" with the various websites they host (some of which, constituting less than a rounding error of the overall sites they host, may host pirated soccer streams), and convinced a court to have Cloudflare blocked.
  • dmix 2y ago
    Technically LaLiga is only allowed to sue because the gov created aggressive IP/piracy rules, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Sinde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Sinde They were given those powers in court over Cloudflare via the Spanish government, with some help via a pressure campaign by US gov to protect US copyright globally.
  • MichaelZuo 2y ago
    If there was a viable competitor, then it wouldn’t matter so much if it was blocked or not…
    • M3L0NM4N 2y ago
      The same IP rules would apply to anybody hosting any site that could have the pirated streams...
    • amarant 2y ago
      What makes you think the competitor wouldn't simply be blocked as well?
      • MichaelZuo 2y ago
        Because their policies, behavior, etc., likely wouldn’t be 100% identical.
    • Dylan16807 2y ago
      That's a bad thing in this case. I don't want website blocking to be easier.
  • autoexec 2y ago
    That said, Cloudflare absolutely has too much power. Centralizing the internet makes it fragile and maximizes the collateral damage caused by draconian copyright enforcement.
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• DeepSeaTortoise 2y ago
  Must be a lack of regulations and compliance procedures giving potential entrepreneurs the legal framework to work within.