Spanish ISP providers messing with Steam / Non-spanish plz take a look too.

[Seinekar]

Hi there and sorry for broken english.

From few days ago, a lot of people in Spain (and im not talking of you me and some friends, im talking also about a lot of random people on some spanish forums) are having trouble with steam.

It usually runs slow or just loads "badly". No pics, no videos, or straight some text without format is shown when accessing to any steam page.

This happens both on the steam app itself, and the web. It even affects the mobile phone version.

So far, the reason behind it is allegedly, but very probably, Spanish ISP providers messing and blockign access to certain servers and stuff.

Why? well, the reason must sound crazy, but turns out that those ISP providers got orders from the governmetn and tribunals to block and interfere certain servers or services to protect...

...the rights of the Spanish football League, and the media wich offers pay-per-view soccer matches. Seems they are attempting to prevent people watching football (soccer) matches "ilegally" through internet (as most of them are pay-per-view on certain platforms who pressured for that measures to be taken)

This is quite a grave situation. Its not just about trouble accessing steam, but about the impunity and reach capabilities of some interested parties to mess with the access to internet. Not only steam but lots of webs hosted "on the wrong servers" are getting trouble. Even small bussiness.

As for now changing my DNS on router config seemed to fix it "a bit", but still i get some missing pic here or there eventually.

Also i guess Valve or whatever companies wich may seem their activities harmed because that mob move of "blockign anything because... paid soccer" should move on and protect their own interest.

[Sergius Magnus]

pedro sanchez dimision

[wolfsnake97]

pedro sanchez dimision

[Ben Lubar]

There's already an active thread about this in case you want to see what other people have said:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/601904152115708893/

Since the ISPs are being forced to block IP addresses, changing your DNS won't help (since it'll still resolve to the same IP addresses). You could potentially get around it using a VPN that exits outside of Spain, but that's not great for multiplayer gaming.