Comment by fivekarots
4 months ago
In 2019, LaLiga mobile app turned on the mic and location to track bars showing matches without a license [1]. Protection data agency fined them with 250k EUR, but was overturned by the Supreme court in 2024 [2].
[1]: https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2019/06/12/inenglish/15603... [2]: https://cincodias.elpais.com/companias/2024-07-27/el-supremo...
It seems like the EU courts need to be involved in this case. Limiting internet to millions of people to make some people rich also flies too close to an human right violation in 2025 so maybe even ECHR can be involved.
They need to lecture these guys very seriously. La Liga is disrupting completely legit and business critical (probably in some cases safety critical) infrastructure, to.. combat piracy of entertainment content? The Spanish government is seemingly complicit. Feels like 2010 in some corrupt pseudo-democracy.
Lecture? They should be stripped of their intellectual property rights.
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The judiciary in Spain is de facto controlled by the main opposition party (PP).
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Tebas and PSOE in the same league? (no pun intended). I doubt it.
The EU is about to put an end to E2E and scan our messages which is a far worse human right violation.
Right now the EU is for regulation and total control.
It can feel a bit different with the unified authoritarian regime in the US now, however, working democracies have a juidacial branch just for this reason. Purely elected sovereigns usually have corruption and populism problems, having an semi-unelected bureaucracy is a must for democracy.
Sounds like the ISP shouldn't be blocking hosting providers that are known to honor narrower takedown orders?
The ISPs are compelled by judicial order to take down whatever LaLiga tells them to, and LaLiga is telling them to block the entire IP range. They can’t not do it.
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Hard to imagine this being legal and the fine is a slap in the face of those whose privacy had been compromised.
This should pose as an existential threat to companies behaving like that.