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In LaLiga Cloudflare IPS blockages they are paying fair for sinners. The righteous are already proposed legal actions

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This weekend They turned to produce Problems for many Internet users who failed to access the websites they visit normally. The reason in many cases was the Cloudflare IPS blockade that several operators carried out due to LaLiga’s demands. Users reaches. As we explain, the war between these two entities comes from afar, and the worst thing is that is causing them to pay fair for sinners. However, some of those righteous are preparing to take action on the matter. Affected in action. Román Ramírez (@patowc), cybersecurity expert and event organizer Rootedconhe published last Friday a message in X (formerly Twitter) encouraging those affected to contact him. The objective, to ensure that those who had suffered the problems offer evidence of it to be able to collect them and gather enough evidence. Legal actions in sight. Javier A. Master (@Javieramastre), who exercises (among other things) as a lawyer from Rootedcon, recently explained the legal details of these actions and is part of that effort of Ramírez to clarify what is happening. Both are convinced that LaLiga is in a clear illicit, and that the legal arguments of that organism are not valid. Freedom of expression. For Ramírez, fundamental rights such as freedom of expression are being violated, “which should not be above economic interests.” Meanwhile, Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, published a message in x accusing Cloudflare of being “perfect accomplice” of criminals who, for example, publish child pornography on the Internet. In that message, says Ramírez, Thebes himself explicitly admits that he is causing damage to third parties, something that theoretically should not be able to do LaLiga if he complied with the law. Shared IPS. The fundamental problem is, as we have already mentioned, that LaLiga requests IP addresses to avoid illegal broadcasts of IPTV football matches. The problem is that in many cases these IPS belong to Cloudflare, but those IPS are shared and if you tomb the IP, you tomb all web sites and services that depend on said IP. Cloudflare does not collaborate in LaLiga. According to LaLiga, Cloudflare does not collaborate at the closure of the IPTV service of the offenders. However, Ramírez explains that what LaLiga demands is to have “total access to her backend.” Cloudflare knows, of course, the web sites and services that “hang” from the same shared IP, but one of its premises is to hide that information – for that the protcolo ECH is served – as well as protect that information and its customers precisely to avoid cyber attacks and BLOCKS. The ideal solution. Cloudflare could thus leave only the website or server that is committing the alleged infraction, but that should be dictated by a judge. The current laws allow LaLiga to send a weekly IPS list to block, and from there the operators must block them or would be exposed to the breach of the judicial mandate. Ideally, a judge, knowing IP address and domain or even the SNI (Server Name Indication), demanded the closure of that exclusive service. Thus Cloudflare could disable that access at the request of the judge and not of the head of the property rights of the issuance, which is the one who demands that indiscriminate block and that affects legitimate websites and websites. Evidence. Those affected who want to provide evidence can do so by contacting Román Ramírez via X (@patowc), as writing to the email address info@rootedcon.com. The objective is to collect as many evidence as you can in the next few days to see how hundreds and even thousands of legitimate websites are inaccessible during soccer matches. And possible demand. With all those data, Ramírez and Maestre hope to build an expert case and report with which to execute a potential demand to LaLiga. The ultimate goal is to raise a complaint with which to apply precautionary measures and that these IPS blocks are suspended. In Xataka | Backdoors, Security and Privacy: Is there the perfect balance? Experts think

What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail

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Let’s explain What is cloudflare and how it works This shield and accelerator for web pages. It is one of those almost essential services for the correct functioning of the Internet, but that we are not aware until it fails or blocks and you can enter hundreds of websites. We will begin this article explaining in a simple way what is cloudflare, summarizing the operation of the Internet and the role that CDNs have like this service in it. Then, we will tell you why a fall or lock of the service makes half the Internet seem to fall. What is cloudflare and how it works Cloudflare is a CDN, a Content Delivery Network either Content distribution networkthat in Spanish is Content distribution network. It’s about a network of servers distributed throughout the world destined to help better distribute Internet content and make you can quickly and safely access the content of a website. To understand its operation you must first understand how the Internet works. A web page is housed on a server, and simplifying it a lot, when you enter it you connect your computer to that server, to access the contents of a website. The same happens when you want to enter any online service or web application, you have to connect to your server. The problem is that perhaps the server of my application is in a country far from the computer from which someone wants to connect. So, that distance makes the connection speed very slow, or that even from some countries cannot be entered. The same happens if the web or the service you are going to access had a single server. Then, having thousands of users entering that single server would make everything slower because I would have to work more and for more people. It is here where the CDNs and their networks of servers come into play. When a website, an online service or application resorts to them, is as if they had copies of the content and cache distributed all over the world to be able to connect in a faster and more efficient way. There will always be a server close to you, and traffic can be distributed by the hundreds of servers. Thus, if I connect from Spain to an American service, I will not join a giant user queue wanting to enter a single server that is also far away, something that would make the connection slow. Simply, I will connect to the nearest server of the CDN network that is using that service. Everything will go faster, and the traffic that accesses the service will be more distributed. Cloudflare is one of the most used CDNs of the world. There are many web pages that resort to this company, because in addition to a very wide network of servers, it also offers protection against various types of online attacks that could collapse access to the contents. This way, Cloudflare is an intermediary between a customer or user and the content of the website or the online service they want to access. It is a network that houses copies of a service so that you always have geographically close, technologically safe access, and less traffic collapsed. Why if Cloudflare Failure Middle Internet does it When you stop accessing this network of servers, you can access its content. This means that if your Internet operator blocks you access to Cloudflare or if this service has a failure, stop being able to enter most web pages. There will be no network that distributes traffic and access to these websites, and simply connect to one would be too slow or you would be too far. For practical purposes and simplifying it a lot, Not being able to access Cloudflare means not being able to access many servicesand that those who use it and are not fallen simply go extremely slow. This is so for The dependence of Cloudflare. Being one of the most popular CDNs in the world, many important and top -level services access it. And these services that use it, depend on their servers network to work properly. In this PDF You can see the services and websites used Cloudflare, such as X, Bluesky, Microsoft, Mozilla, Snapchat, Temu, Efe, Github, Wikimedia, Facua, CaixaBank and many more. All these services will stop working or work extremely slow if the Cloudflare network stops working. When a website or online service fails, it is sure that there is a problem with the infrastructure of the server network that provides you with access to it. So Errors like the 502 Bad Gateway indicating this problem. If the one who cannot access a website, app or service is due to this, all you can do is cloudflare or the CDN to use the error. When an operator blocks access to cloudflare Or some other concrete CDN, the problem is that your IP cannot access this network of servers, although it works correctly. In these cases solving it is easyand you just have to use one VPN to access from a different IP that does not have access. In Xataka Basics | CG-NAT: What is it, what problems can cause and how to know if you have it in your Internet connection

IPS blocks that affect Cloudflare are the new Internet condemnation. Spain Italy, and the United Kingdom already suffers them

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The situation we are living these days in Spain with the Internet is worrying. Indiscriminate IPS blockages caused by the fight against illegal soccer broadcasts have made Complaints about Movistar’s service, O2 or Digi multiply: When these sporting events are held, various web sites and services cease to be accessible. The measures are resulting to have notable collateral effects, but this is not only in Spain. The situation. In recent days we have seen how Movistar clients, O2 or Digi have criticized the cuts in the service in networks that prevented them from accessing various sites and platforms on the Internet. The reason has been the blockade of IPS to fight the illegal broadcasts of football matches. In several cases, blocked IPS, some of which belong to Cloudflare, are not linked to a single service, but thousands, and not make a selective block – which is complex, but feasible – causes numerous problems. Italy was also a pioneer in this crusade. In Spain LaLiga keeps a crusade Against the illegal broadcasts of football matches, but Italy also has been fighting this type of problem for years. Already in November 2022 the iutalian authorities They identified thousands of subscribers to IPTV channels to which he later sent fines. Shared IPS. Giorgio Bonfiglio, Amazon Web Services engineer, already explained the problem of IPS blocks In a thread in x. As he highlighted, in many cases the blocked IPS are shared IPS, although it is very difficult (or impossible) to find out if they are shared. The IPV6 protocol has facilitated that service providers can access a colossal number of addresses, being able to change them dynamically and even assign one for each request. During IPS blocks, connectivity in various parts of Italy was very affected. Source: Torrentfreak The selective block is very complex. “Block one by one would not be possible. You would have to block the entire class, but that is not feasible because it is almost never possible to determine how many IPS are owned by a certain client,” He added. And that is what is happening with these indiscriminate blockages. The Italian Parliament raised a law proposal precisely for that in July 2023. It ended up approved and was baptized as “Piracy Shield” or “Privacy shield.” AGCOM acts in Italy. The Transalpino country has AGCom communications regulator (authoritá per le Garanzie Nelle Communicazioni), which is the one that manages the privacy shield blocking system. In February 2024 there happened there exactly what is beginning to happen here: the indiscriminate blockages of IPS that belong to Cloudflare OA services like Zenlayer (another CDN) e even Google They caused hundreds, perhaps thousands of legitimate and lawful websites were inaccessible while those blockages were active. Even the ISP, forced to comply with those blockages, also They criticize the situation. United Kingdom adds to the crusade. The use of dynamic IPTV emissions blockages is becoming the norm also in the United Kingdom. Over there They started working in a regulation in respect in 2017, and have collaborated with specialized companies in illegal emission struggle such as FRIENDMTS. Content suppliers such as Sky obtained in July 2023 block illegal streaming services sports. Those blockages, of course, too They caused What legitimate services will cease to be accessible. And more problems in Austria. These types of problems have also been lived in Austria. At the end of August 2022 Cloudflare clients began to complain about sites on their network that were not accessible in the country. As They told later Those responsible for Cloudflare, everything was due to an IPS blockade executed by the Austrian ISP. Austrian authorities They reacted later To avoid IPS blocking for the protecting neutrality in the network. But the locks are everywhere. These types of situations are being suffered around the world. Judicial orders that force ISPs to block IPS denounced for illegitimate contents have occurred in countries such as Canada, Holland either Franceand in those cases once again the impact is not only for those illegitimate services, but for users and companies that lose access due to the blockade of IPS. Image | Tourettes In Xataka | If you get a letter from LaLiga, it is not necessary to pay what they ask: this is what the lawyers recommend

LaLiga’s crusade with football comes long. And with Movistar and Cloudflare they are paying fair for sinners

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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. Imaghen | Compare fiber | LaLiga | Fancy Crave In Xataka | The positioning of the judges about LaLiga and the IPTV is clear: you cannot chase the end user

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