alt Hacker NewsI'm interested in how those conversations went between the LaLiga and Cloudflare that convinced them to do this. I know I'm not Cloudflare, but if a company (any company) came to me demanding blocking IP ranges according the their schedule that would require a bunch of work on my end to make it happen, there's going to be a lot of push back. It'd take a dump truck load of money to make that happen.
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That's not how this worked. Cloudflare was not involved at all. Spanish ISPs were ordered by Spanish courts to block their customers from accessing specific IP addresses.
Cloudflare are very much pushing back: https://www.laliga.com/en-GB/news/official-statement-in-rela...
I thought the government just forced their ISPs to block. Was CF involved at all?
It wasn’t a conversation. It was a court order.
Cloudflare are apparently not involved. It's an order against local ISPs to block Cloudflare.
No conversation at all needed to happen. LaLiga got a court order. The order specifically stated that if LaLiga flag your IP address, the internet providers in Spain must block it during the match. Cloudflare have nothing to do with it.
Who could have forseen, that LaLiga would end up abusing this system!?