Cloudflare begins legal actions against LaLiga for its IPS blockages. They are “clumsy and ineffective”

The open war between LaLiga and Cloudflare It is intensified. Since the beginning of February LaLiga has been ordering operators The temporary block of a series of shared IPS that belong to Cloudflare. The goal is to avoid illegal soccer matches, but those indiscriminate blockages are causing damage to third parties.

There are many affected by blockages that are causing millions of users to not access thousands of websites during sports broadcasts. Not only users, but also companies that have lost operation and sales During those periods.

IP blocks that affect Cloudflare are a measure that has been used in the past by other rights holders In other countries. Italy It is the closest case ours, but it is not clear that the way in which LaLiga is acting Have legal support. In fact, in Spain those affected are now raising possible legal actions against LaLiga.

And precisely in Xataka we have received a statement in which it is officially announced that Cloudflare has taken legal actions against LaLiga claiming that their “disproportionate block efforts” are illegal. This is the full text of the statement:

“As an open Internet defender for a long time, Cloudflare offers security and reliability services that protect millions of cyber attack sites and reinforce the infrastructure of the Internet. In recent weeks, LaLiga and Spanish ISPs have tried in a mistake address the problem of illegal broadcasts, on the alleged base of a recently issued sentence that would order IP addresses Cloudflare and other cloud service providers, a clumsy and ineffective approach that has prevented millions of users from accessing thousands of websites without any relationship with these activities. Cloudhiding the Court from the foreseeable damage to third parties and the public interest. LaLiga’s actions are a clear threat to the open internet. Cloudflare today presented an incident of nullity against that sentence, in order to establish that the disproportionate wool block measures are illegal.

Cloudflare usually collaborates with rights holders to help solve problems such as illegal broadcasts, but LaLiga has not left Cloudflare another option to undertake this legal route. Instead of responding to the concerns of Spanish users about the over-lock of content, LaLiga has tried to divert attention with unfounded accusations against Cloudflare, while intensifying their illegal blockage practices. Cloudflare expects this judicial action to help prevent future indiscriminate blocking measures and make it clear that rights holders cannot put their commercial interests on the fundamental right of millions of consumers to access an open internet. “

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