Football is causing real chaos on the Internet. Not directly, but due to LaLiga’s obsession to avoid illegal emissions of the parties. The particular crusade of this body against these emissions comes from afar, but is beginning to cause real problems to users and companies that have nothing to do with the problem of these illegal emissions.
War against IPTV Yy El Cardsharing. In December 2021 the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona He issued an order aimed at the immediate blockade of domain names belonging to several IPTV and Cardhsaring suppliers. The court authorized LaLiga and Movistar+ to monitor web pages blocked throughout the season to identify possible changes in their identification, but they could also request the blockade of new domain names weekly. These requests should be executed by Internet access providers. Said blockages had already been executed In February 2020 After a sentence of the Commercial Court No. 7 of Madrid.
Weekly locks. In August 2022 LaLiga and Movistar Plus+ They won a lawsuit Joint before the Commercial Court No. 9 of Barcelona that enabled them to “be able to block access to domains that facilitate the piracy of LaLiga content.” The “dynamic block” measure It allows URLs, domains and IP addresses to be identified weekly without communicating them previously to the Court. It was already decided that it would be in force until the current 2024/2025 season.
Attempt to pursue user IPS. In March 204 LaLiga made it clear that I wanted to chase those users They see football by IPTV applications not allowed. A judicial order raised the possibility of track the IP addresses of those who profit economically with that activity. He precedent of the Euskaltel case Years before marked a turning point in this type of demand by content suppliers.
Telegram lock attempt. That same month the National Court Ask to block Telegram in Spain to operators. The platform has become On the new Deep Weband through it all kinds of content are shared, even those of emissions that violate the copyright of their owners. Finally The blockade did not occur.
LaLiga against Freedom on the Internet. In April 2024 the company He loaded against Google, Apple and Huawei As owners of application stores from where the NewPlay app could be downloaded, one of the IPTV apps accused of violating their rights.
450 euros for using the IPTV. LaLiga continued her particular crusade against freedom on the Internet and in June 2024 requested by letter 450 euros To users who had accessed IPTV to see LaLiga content illegally.
Tracking UPS IPS. Just a month ago the Commercial Court No. 9 of Barcelona authorized LaLiga to receive Information about IPS connected to Acstream. A preliminary diligence requested by the League was agreed, which consists of: “sending to the operators of the IP addresses identified and ordered based on the ID of the” Ace Stream “channel in which they participate.”
Criminal Procedure Law. This law includes in its article 13 the “provisional interruption of the services offered by said contents or in the provisional blockade of each other when they lie abroad.” However, its affectation to a fundamental right such as freedom of expression, and also these measures, which involve IPS blocking, are being carried out in certain cases in a seemingly indiscriminate manner, affecting both legitimate sites as to sites that are not. The reason is that platforms such as Cloudflare use IPS that share all those services.
How illegal retransmissions are detected. The way to detect and knock down web domains that broadcast soccer matches illegally has changed a lot in recent years. In LaLiga they make use of Tools like Marauder, Lumière and Blackhole For these tasks, and said software It has generated interest internationally.
IPTV as such are legal. NewPlay is one IPTV to use. Base are a completely legal type of application. They are still decoders of M3U lists. For practical purposes a kind of VLC -style player. While LaLiga accuses this type of applications to be used to reproduce content without permission, such as football matches. In addition, the Supreme Court has already established that football has no intellectual property.
But the indiscriminate block of IPS is terrible. What is happening is that among the IPS that are blocked there are IPS managed by Cloudflare that are not dedicated to a single service, but are shared between tens, hundreds and even thousands of them. If the Internet supplier does not relate a selective block, when blocking the IP, it not only prevents access to who offers illegal content, but also to the rest of the services that are totally legitimate.
Cloudflare does not make it easy. Cloudflare makes use of techniques such as ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) to protect the privacy of websites that share that IP, which makes the filtering of each other and the execution of a selective block. However, some operators like Vodafone They confirmed to Xataka Mobile that these days they applied a block “much more precise and adjusted to LaLiga’s request” although they did not give details about it. Movistar’s clients complained precisely that They were affected by indiscriminate blockages that prevented them from accessing numerous web sites and services.
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