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Can Spaniards work around this with a VPN? I know that causes other issues though.

To what degree is it feasible for a startup to move around in Europe? This is the sort of heavy-handed, tech-illiterate, authoritarian activity that might make me seriously consider moving my infrastructure or headquarters if I was a Spanish startup.

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Yes, that's the funny thing, the people that want to pirate sports are still unaffected. In fact, one of the most famous pages to pirate soccer matches doesn't get blocked during this lockdowns

> This is the sort of heavy-handed, tech-illiterate, authoritarian.

Totally agree with this, it's ridiculous and a shame.

I personally don't use any infrastructure provider from Spain, but you wouldn't solve any problem moving out, and also those providers are not the ones to blame or punish. Only customer connecting from Spain are affected where is the infrastructure does not solve the problem.

Yes, works with any VPN.

Also, it takes 10 minutes to find a valid football stream, even without a VPN. Such is life.

I did manage with Cloudflare's WARP, now is called Cloudflare One [1] because the 1.1.1.1 DNS

- [1]https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/team-and-re...

IPs are blocked at Spanish internet provider level, the problem would be if you have customers in Spain, but it doesn't matter where you move your infra, if your ip is in one of the affected IP blocks, customers from Spain won't be able to reach no matter in what country is placed (what happened with docker pull )

My Tailscale exit node disagrees ;)

do you mind to elaborate ? are you connecting from out of Spain, I'm curious how fucked up the situation is.

Come together as a country and boycott couple of games, cancel subscriptions and see how quickly stream owners turn around.

I spend a lot of time every year in Spain. VPNs work but sometimes you are forget about those Internet outages and are wondering why some services suddenly stop working. Some of them stop working in mysterious ways as well (for example if they host just some resources on Cloudflare).

It's frankly ridiculous because it's very easy to use a VPN and stream w/e anyway. I don't watch football, tennis or golf but I use VPN regularly to watch Australian TV.

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