Blockages due to judicial judgment that protect protection mechanisms against alleged illegal football broadcasts They go further of concrete web pages. At the request of one of them, Starring Telefónicaoperators Like Vodafone They have come to block one of the most basic internet components: the sources on which we read the contents.
What happened. Operators such as Digi and Vodafone, at the request of Telefónica and based on Judicial Judgment No. 294/2022 of the Commercial Court of Barcelona, temporarily blocked access to two domains of Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com).
This is the first case in which, based on this type of sentence, web pages are not blocked without absolutely any relationship with the retransmission of parties. Here is one step further: a necessary element is blocked so that some websites can work.
Why has it happened. In view of user complaints, The response of giants like Vodafone Spain has been the same as they have wielded this part for a while:
“Good afternoon, the blockade of these pages comes from a judicial sentence, we simply execute the indicated. Greetings.”
Based on the judicial judgment, Vodafone and Digi temporarily blocked access to this cloud of Fuentes. Both domains serve typographies of websites, others and under the umbrella of Google.
The consequences. Although the affectation does not seem to have been massive, the blockade has attacked one of the most basic internet pillars: its sources. How it collects broadbandwebsites such as Google Calendar or Maps experienced specific problems by not being able to correctly load elements of its interface.
“The other day my overwhelmed computer scientist because the blockade that did not let debian repos, until he thought it was that and VPN’s shot.
You will say that it has to do with the p *** football. “
Google Fonts is a typographic sources library. Some that you can download on your computer yourself. In the case of the web, when a URL points to its API, the browser loads the sources from the Google cloud. If the URL is blocked, there is no data to load.
It also affected some of the Github repositories and users of users. Some of them, completely innacious and out of play, as the Users affected in Menéame.
Why keep going. After LaLiga, the most immediate doubt had to do with the end of the blockages. The operators soon clear it: Blocks still have life.
Although in this case LaLiga is unmarked, since the petition has been executed by Telefónica, the sentence leaves something clear: these weekly update mechanism will have “a duration subject to the duration of three sports seasons, that is, until the end of the Football championships of the 2024-2025 season “. In other words, while there are LaLiga matches, there will be blockages, regardless of whether or not LaLiga that orders them.
O2 explained that, after LaLiga, the Second Division Days are held, as well as the promotion matches. The promotion play-off final is planned for June 21date on which the LaLiga calendar officially closes.
“The enemy of clubs”. LaLiga continues to protect the importance of audiovisual rights and the fight against fraud in Spain and Portugal.
“It is necessary to take into account that for about 70% of clubs, audiovisual rights are their largest source of income.”
As detailed, in the last year more than 3,000 IP addresses have been detected transmitting this type of content. The problem? Killthus affecting Municipalities, Some of the largest forums in Spainand hundreds of web addresses without the slightest relationship with the retransmission of content without copyright.
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