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by booi 51 days ago
This statement really makes no sense..

> Google, Cloudflare, VPN providers, and other entities facilitating piracy are responsible for the illegal activities they enable and profit from.

Why wouldn't ISPs be responsible too? or the cable modem providers? or the computer providers? or your eyes. Let's just blame all those things and not the person that made it or the person that consumes it.

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Cloudflare are actively involved in publishing this content — they are equivalent to the hosting provider.
Not true, they just proxy the pirating sites to their true host. They have about the same responsability as the ISP themselves. Maybe you want Cloudflare to decide what to proxy and what to block without a judge ordering it.
Your ISP will route your packets and not obfuscate the original destination nor cache any content, provide Ddos protections, WAF,...

Cloudflare does.

> Your ISP will route your packets and not obfuscate the original destination nor cache any content,

That's not true. ISPs modify returned content. https://lukerodgers.ca/2023/12/09/optimum-isp-is-mitming-its... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NebuAd

That's true, at least for most internet service providers. You're just nitpicking for the sake of it.
My ISP obfuscates my location by replacing it with an IP address . However, if the government wants to know my location, they can ask my ISP to find out a physical address based on an IP address. They can also ask Cloudflare to find out an origin IP address based on a domain name. This is normal. It's also slow. The Spanish government doesn't want to bother arresting pirates, it would rather be seen doing something about the problem, without doing something about the problem.
it's La Liga, what do you expect?