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Right now if you want to use internet on weekends you need to pay a VPN. Even some online games on Steam stop working. I've seen also a several Twitch streamer
by alecsm 1y ago
Right now if you want to use internet on weekends you need to pay a VPN.
Even some online games on Steam stop working. I've seen also a several Twitch streamers who can't stream, startups down, etc.
We're basically hostages of this stupidity. And you know the funny thing? Football streams are working just fine. Now I feel morally obligated to watch pirated football and never pay them for it.
- pell 1y agoThey could also make the sport more affordable to watch again.
- Yeul 1y agoFootball clubs have a billion eurodollar budget that they need to pay for. And how do they do that? With TV licensing. I live in the Netherlands and everyone here has accepted that a Dutch club will never again get into a Championship League finale. Every Dutch star is playing in Spain or England.
- hedora 1y agoAt least in the US, there are minor league / feeder teams that are much cheaper to watch. Going to the stadium for a game is essentially free, and actually enjoyable, since getting tickets and entering the stadium isn’t like dealing with the airlines/tsa, but worse. You’re still supporting the mob though.
- arcfour 1y agoEntering the stadium of an MLB game is maybe a 2-10 minute wait in line followed by scanning your ticket. It is in no way comparable to flying, let alone worse...that's absolutely crazy. Heck even the NFL is just standing around in line, walking through the metal detectors, and scanning your ticket. Source: have gone to 2-3 dozen MLB and NFL games.
- mbreese 1y agoMy local MLS team recently switched from airport style scanners (remove keys and phones from pockets) to continuous walk-thru (keep everything in your pockets) style metal detectors. That coupled with NFC ticket readers has made the entire process much faster. The last MLB game I saw (this summer) was a similarly easy process.
- conradfr 1y ago"The European football ecosystem is already dead but it doesn't know it yet." It's not sustainable and has to pop, but god damn is is resilient, even if it's kind of artificially.
- barthvr 1y agoIt has already poped in France. Our clubs won't get any TV rights this season (or really peanuts, like €5M to L1's winner).
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoWhy would they ever do that now that they have a captive audience? More likely it goes the other direction.
- EbNar 1y agoThey are stupid enough that they block almost no ipv6 range. So if your provider has ipv6, you're relatively safe.
- sandworm101 1y agoShhh. The lawyers barely know that ipv6 exists. They havent learned how to write out ipv6 addresses yet. Dont give them a reason to.
- Yeask 1y agoSo that is why I don't get disconnected!!!
- calgoo 1y agoSame! I had not noticed anything and was wondering what people where talking about, especially as i got a twitch window open like 14h a day while working and evening projects at home.
- betaby 1y agoIPv6 is not widely deployed in Spain. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
- motbus3 1y agoWhy there is no counter legal action to sue them for wrong specification of the blockage? It seems quite an easy-win.
- SilverElfin 1y agoThat’s insane. Do citizens not have a recourse? Like maybe a freedom of speech constitutional angle?
- aarroyoc 1y agoThere's one recourse in the Constitutional Court driven by Clouflare and RootedCON but the thing about the Constitutional Court is that it can be very slow and it's heavily politicized and I'm not really sure the government position on this. Right now, only one leftist Catalan party has said anything against the blocks in the Congress. Also many mass media are not reporting this issues because they're also an interested party.
- alecsm 1y agoWe have the freedom to say we're against it. The system is rotten to the core and run by people detached from reality.
- userbinator 1y agoFreedom of speech, in the strong form that is most familiar in the US, is largely not a thing in other countries.
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoHow does that work with the porn if verification stuff?
- bdangubic 1y agoor in the united states
- yeasku 1y agoWe can see the freedom in USA madia when they talk about about Epstein and its friends.
- thiht 1y agoOh yeah, because the US freedom of speech amendment is so effective right now.
- echelon 1y ago> now if you want to use internet on weekends you need to pay a VPN. Weekends? Do they specifically block the internet (or at least the websites mentioned in the article - GitHub, etc.) on weekends? Blocking Cloudflare seems insane. That's a huge portion of the internet (for better or worse).
- hsbauauvhabzb 1y agoI keep seeing this rhetoric, but every time I use a vpn for non piracy stuff I’m captcha’d to hell. Is my experience somehow different from most?
- justsid 1y agoIf the experience is everything is blocked or everything is captcha hell, the latter still sounds like an improvement. I personally have no need for a VPN so I don’t know what the internet is like with one, but it does sound like without one the internet is essentially blocked.
- joseda-hg 1y agoThe more widely used a VPN the more aggresively it's captcha’d, use a paid less known VPN and the experience improves dramatically
- labcomputer 1y agoMaybe that’s the point? So that you have to watch soccer on TV? The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.