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Vpn blockades, it begins
First of its kind dynamic blockade order issued for 2 major vpn providers in Europe. This marks the start of era of unmatched censorship attempts in order to satisfy dmca moguls.
Next in line: private vpn servers.
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This is the same Spain that blocks Cloudflare during football games. It's insane there, they are like North Korea with the internet, but only when football is on.
The mafia owns their football clubs, that's probably why.
But no need to panic:
Btw if you approach them, saying you are a VPN provider and want access to the block list, they will tell you, sorry we only give that to Spanish citizens who register... So they would not give it to these VPNs so they could not do blocking.
EUdSSR!
it's a fucking joke at this point, you can see all the IPs they block in realtime here: https://hayahora.futbol/#estado
and that's not even an exhaustive list because it's not public. I've seen several instances of websites breaking apart because X/Y/Z js/css library is hosted under Cloudflare, or websites outright blocked.
they're literally even blocking Twitch ranges, like what the fuck. Streamers have to use a VPN to stream ._.
time to nuke spain?
Other countries are doing the same.
https://torrentfreak.com/french-court-orders-popular-vpns-to-block-more-pirate-sites-despite-opposition/
This is why some vpn decide to pull their business out of certain countries to not have to deal with these stupid orders.
As one of the Mullvad ad's said, "Society that will trade privacy for safety, will loose both".
Unfortunetely, VPNs are under constant attack, because they let you bypass bullshit laws, like internet child protection, or in this case piracy.
I'm a Spanish citizen, and I don't think we can access the block lists. Particularly impossible to get access to the one LaLiga maintains as they have no need to make that public.
Also, VPN providers affected by the court order are being offered access to the feed, so do not spread disinformation, the situation is already bad as it is.
Come and join us,
https://i2p.net/en/
No VPN required and built in (anonymous) torrenting.
The more people that join the network, the better it gets.
For those that want to run a node 24/7 on a vps,
https://i2pd.website/
The end is... you already know.
We can see where this is going. First EU blocks citizens from accessing certain media. Then it cancels elections based on disinformation. Then it limits VPNs. Up next: blocking VPNs.
I would give an advice to EU leaders: simply buy the great firewall source code from China - this is much easier than loading ISPs and datacenters and providers with requests for limitations and blacklists.
I run a few dozen I2P routers myself, alongside Tor and Hyphanet (Freenet)!
It's really easy to set up, but uses a surprisingly large amount of memory compared to Tor.
How much memory does it actually use in practice, do you have an idea?
This is an interesting project indeed.
Fear not, friends, the government of the United States will soon be offering free VPN service worldwide from freedom.gov
A random one I checked that I'm running shows 800 MiB RSS (standard glibc allocator, but jemalloc3 is similar).
Can't people just stop watching football? Or at least watch it together with neighbors or HDMI splitter? Or just subscribed on country with cheap laliga subscription, then use VPS?
I see. It's because of private equity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aslipelit/2025/03/05/laliga-fuels-growth-with-cvc-investment-while-taking-on-piracy/
Corruption at it’s finest in plain sight.
It's what we called rent-seeking. It could be private equity, government, parents or even welfare recipient.
I don't know if you understand the implications of the phrase "the mafia owns"
I heard about this.... Is this just CF warp but geoloc on US cloudflare IP's only
Any intel in that ?
Warp just evolved btw, lol
Elaborate.
Exactly, The phrase "the mafia owns" lacks specificity and needs clarification.
With so many mafias owning and operating legitimate businesses to extract easy money it's hard to know which one we're dealing with in this case. The historical ties of the football mafias in Spain are well known but we are in new territory now, several very powerful mafias got an increased interest in the football business in recent years so things got murkier.
Formerly the football business used to launder illegal money but that's not needed anymore, why launder limited amounts of illegal money when you can just take people's money at will legally and in much, much larger amounts?
I am moving away from commercial VPNs and will just use VPSs or DEDI's for my person VPN. I don't use google or any other platform that can be annoying with non residential/VPN IPs.
No no no no no no, THE mafia. The one you're thinking of. It's not a metaphor, it's the actual original mafia.