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vascoyesterday at 9:24 AM1 replyview on HN

The thing is it doesn't protect anything. All it does is funnel money to VPN providers


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xp84yesterday at 3:49 PM

It does something: the people who pay for the TV rights threaten the league or whoever if they don’t try to push for this type of BS. It’s not about whether it’s actually effective at stopping those who do pirate. It’s about placating whatever media conglomerate paid €XXX million for those TV rights.