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Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

223 points by gslin

by thomastraum

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fantastic work.
PSA: if you still think its not the time to fight for your rights for the status quo in privacy you will come to regret it. If you are the type of person who reads this type of news and thinks: "cool the system is working, it'll sort itself out" you will come to regret it.
you will need to become more active or it will be taken away

by ktallett

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Considering web addresses are easily changed, it was a futile suggestion to say block LaLiga streams. Good on Nordvpn. As a football fan, the owners of the leagues have too much power. Like in the UK people have gone to jail for piracy, which should never happen.

by swiftcoder

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> “Inside Spain, the consequences of indiscriminate IP blocking have become almost impossible to ignore,” NordVPN writes
Too fucking right. It is beyond tiresome to fire up the laptop and wonder whether I'll need a VPN to access GitHub today

by theendisney

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If any unrelated ip is blocked they are in violation of the EU common market regulations. Its simply not allowed.

by anthk

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by mdlxxv

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Finally, some common sense in this utterly absurd situation. I'm so glad this year's "fútbol" season ends this weekend. AFAIK, they don't break the Internet for Segunda División matches (yet!).

by lifestyleguru

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Fuck European football and everything about it. Hopefully this year's world cup will be absolute unpopular failure.

by bamboozled

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by breppp

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by nubinetwork

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I'll repeat what I said the last time about laliga...
> Foot egg is so ingrained into the countrymen that nothing else matters.
> There wouldn't be so much of a forced monopoly if more people would stop watching games and stand up to laliga.
> Complaining on the internet every time laliga shuts down github etc isn't going to change anything, we can't solve your problems, the change has to come from within.
Props to the court for telling laliga to go away.