that we have become accustomed to it

This weekend some other Spanish Internet user tried to access the website of Linux Mint to download this Linux distribution. What was found was a notice from LaLiga indicating that “access to this IP address has been blocked.” That site is totally legitimate and has still been part of LaLiga’s massive IP blocks, but the bad thing, in fact, is no longer just that.

An everyday tragedy. It was not the first time that the Linux Mint website ended up inaccessible due to indiscriminate blockages ordered by LaLiga. Users of this distribution They already commented on it in their forum in October 2025, and a similar debate appeared on Reddit and also in Forocoches during the month of December. The fatigue was evident, and it was clear that it was not the first time that this website was blocked… and it will not be the last either.

An absolute tragedy. Spain has been involved in this situation for months now. Since February 2025 blockades will beginthe situation has not only been resolved, but has worsened. Every weekend – and often, a good part of the week if there is football in international competitions – the blockades and protests are repeated. situations that hijack the internet. First of all, to the users, who cannot normally access thousands of pages. Secondly, to the creators of these pages, individual users or companies, most of them legitimatewho cannot offer their content, products and services as they should and therefore they end up with economic and reputational losses.

LaLiga has managed to get us used to this nonsense. LaLiga’s obsession has caused these measures to be repeated indiscriminately except in the summer, when there is no official competition. Such is the insistence that these blockades have become something routine and everyday: they seem normal to us, and that is terrible and tragic.

Constant nightmare. Despite this, social networks continue to serve as the most visible means of reporting this activity. In X, for example, messages with the hashtag #laligagate are frequent every weekend. They usually show new blocked websites that are completely legitimate and that again and again end up being inaccessible for hours.

What those affected can do. The website LaLigaGatewhich arose as a result of this problem, is reporting some new developments in the fight against these blockages. But it is RootedCON that continues to try the most to put legal mechanisms in place to combat this situation. They have recently collaborated with LaLigaGate to make available to those affected a template to report these blocks.

Infiltrated in Forocoches. As they point out in VozPopuliLaLiga’s crusade against unauthorized broadcasts of football matches is causing disturbing actions. One of the latest, the “infiltration” of LaLiga in Forocoches to try to detect the links to those broadcasts that are shared in this forum and then knock them down with IP blocking orders.

The next goal: VPNs. The massive blocking of IPs only affects Internet users with a Spanish IP, and that means there is a relatively simple solution to get around them: use VPN services to simulate that our IP belongs to another country and can therefore access the blocked IPs. The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, attended a breakfast with media and there he explained that “we will soon announce an important resolution on the VPN issue that we have achieved.”

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