Cloudflare does not give up. The company, at a open war against LaLiga, has just presented According to Bandancha an appeal before the Constitutional Court with an objective: that cease IPS blocks Sorted by LaLiga.
What happened. As they point out in this medium, Cloudflare has presented an appeal before this body to challenge the LaLiga order and “establish the illegality of the disproportionate blockages of LaLiga.”
Amparo resource. As Point out The Constitutional Court of Spain itself is responsible for managing this type of judicial requests that aim to “protect the violations of the rights and freedoms” recognized in the articles of the Constitution.
Adds to rootedcon. The RootedCon Organization announced on May 16 that there had been an appeal for amparo after “exhausted all the legal routes within our reach” to try to convince the judge of the “serious anomaly” that these blockages suppose. “That resource is joined by the one who has just presented Cloudflare, and revives a situation that remains without solving.
A nightmare for users and companies. In March many users broke the Internet. We soon discovered the reason: LaLiga had begun to order indiscriminate blockages of IPS to fight illegal soccer broadcasts through IPTV services. There began a terrible situation in which They paid and pay fair for sinners. Worst of all, these problems threaten to continue in the future, although both cloudflare and rootedcon have tried to stop such blockages in the courts of justice.
What will happen next season. LaLiga prepares for the 2025/26 season, and Everything points to keep the IPS blockages that have tormented users in recent months. The sentence (No. 310/2024, of December 18, 2024 of the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona) in which this body will continue to be valid until season 2026/2027, which predicts more and more blockages not only next season, but also the following. The situation is unsustainable for thousands of users and companies Affected
Cloudflare and rootedcon lost the first battle. Spanish justice dismissed in March the Nullity requests Independent filed by Cloudflare, Rootedcon and other plaintiffs against LaLiga. That was a hard varapalo for the legal battle of these entities, which have now attended the consitional court in the hope that the matter can finally be solved.
LaLiga hid things. As revealed in Bandancha, in the appeal presented by Cloudflare it is indicated that “LaLiga did not inform the Court that the IP addresses she proposed to block were shared among thousands of websites”, something that has precisely been the great origin of the problem. In addition, they stand out,
“LaLiga obtained the locking order without notifying the cloud service providers involved, hiding the foreseeable damage for the general public.
Damage to third parties. The blockages supposedly violate the Criminal Code by causing damage to third parties and “make inaccessible computer data”, but instead of trying to affect less users and moderate, what they did in the last stretch of the season was intensified. These blockages cause thousands of websites domains to be inaccessible to users of different operators, and have affected media, business websites, Important resources For the operation of many websites and even public services Like the Madrid City Council.
Waiting. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Cloudflare, but the company at the moment has not officially pronounced on this resource. From Rootedcon they already told us how they had confidence that the Constitutional Court offered a solution to the problem. Even so, if that resource does not progress, they said, “we do not rule out Europe.” This seems, can go for long, and in the meantime, IPS blocks will probably continue to torment us all.
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