Uber ignores the court order that blocked its service
The private transport application Uber has taken a new step in light of the recent court order issued by Commercial Court Number 2 of Madrid that blocked its website and its service through Internet And, given its trajectory, you would expect a Uber style reaction, skirting the legalities and looking for small doors in the process. That is why has updated its application for the Android platform, bypassing the blockade ordered by the Madrid judge and allowing its users to continue to use this service despite everything
And it is that, although the expansion of the car that a few weeks ago prohibited Uber in all of Spain and that just yesterday also blocked their website and their applications, it could have been sorted quickly. In this way, shortly after learning of the blockade issued by the judge, the web page and the applications began to cease to be operational depending on the Internet company hired by the user (Movistar was the most agile in adopting the judicial measure and cutting its connections with Uber). But just as quickly the type of blocking performed was discovered, and with it, the solution
Apparently, the blocking was applied by DNS, the operators adding the domainsdomains and websites from Uber to this filter to have them located and blockedFor this reason, a VPN or virtual private network allowed you to skip this step and access the web directly or return functionality to applications completely. A move that the engineers at Uber were quick to insert into the application for Android, which was updated yesterday to continue providing service to users who so wish. Something that Uber announced through its official Twitter account, calling it“connection problems” to the prohibition order of the Commercial Court of Madrid
In addition, it has also announced that along with the operation of the application for terminals Android, there will soon be a version for iOS, which they are actively working on updating to ensure that as many users as possible can request transportation through it.Updates that Uber do not fully clarify but, whatever the case, skip the prohibitions and vetoeslaunched to the mobile operators as well as to the banks and entities in charge of both providing Internet connection to this company and collecting the payments for the journeys.
In short, Uber continues with its strategy of pressing to push the laws and regulations to the limit patience of the taxi drivers Something that it repeats in the rest of the countries where it is present in order to continue gradually conquering the field of transport. Although, it is also true that the agility of the Spanish justice system when ordering the blocking of services has been surprising Uber, and not so much when legislating to open the doors to new alternatives in the area of passenger transport.We will have to wait and see if new measures are taken to stop the advance of Uber
