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They will now require VPN providers to also block IPs

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According to an information note from LaLiga, the Commercial Court No. 1 of Córdoba has issued several orders granting LaLiga and Telefónica precautionary measures “unaudita parte” (“without hearing the other party”, without previously hearing the defense). These measures specifically target two of the providers of VPN services best known on the market: NordVPN and ProtonVPN. The consequences are very important. Dynamic blocking obligation. The court order – to which we have not had access, and which is mentioned in LaLiga – requires that both NordVPN and ProtonVPN must: “Immediately implement in its internal systems the appropriate measures to make it possible for the IP addresses provided by the plaintiffs, in which the illegal broadcast of protected audiovisual content has been verified, to become inaccessible from Spain.” Is absolutely unheard of. VPN providers as part of the problem. These orders, they say in LaLiga, “recognize that VPN service providers are technological intermediaries” that are within the application of the European Digital Services regulations, and therefore must prevent infringements from being committed through their infrastructures. The proceedings also highlight that VPNs are an “extremely effective and accessible means of generating the possibility of access to content that is not accessible in certain geographic locations.” Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, I already pointed out recently to the objective of imposing its demands on VPN providers. And on top of that take advantage of that activity. According to the documents cited by LaLiga, these VPN service providers not only facilitate access to geographically restricted content, but also actively advertise this ability to bypass the massive IP blocks ordered by LaLiga. According to the judge, these campaigns “distort the real location” and contribute to avoiding the restrictions already decreed by other courts. Unheard of part. That legal term sounds complex, but its meaning is quite direct. It literally means “without hearing the other party.” We are – if the orders are confirmed, to which we insist, we have not had access – facing a unilateral resolution. The normal thing is that the other party can defend itself, but we are facing a (another) legal exception reserved for emergency situations that they have taken advantage of in LaLiga for their policies of massive and indiscriminate blockades, regardless of the damage to third parties. NordVPN and ProtonVPN may oppose each other. In LaLiga they talk that we are facing precautionary measures, something also important because with them we do not have a final sentence. The affected companies have the right to oppose these measures once they have been notified to try to have the judge revoke them after hearing their arguments. Even so, LaLiga also indicates that the measures are for “immediate implementation”, which leaves these companies in a difficult defensive position. What ProtonVPN says. A company spokesperson has indicated in comments to Xataka Móvil that they were “not aware of any proceedings that may be underway” before the information came out. Likewise, it states that any court order issued “without due notification to the affected parties” would be “invalid from a procedural point of view.” They want the opportunity to present their case before a binding ruling is made. What NordVPN says. At Xataka we have contacted those responsible for NordVPN to clarify the matter. At the moment we have not received a response, but we will expand this information if we obtain new information. AND the tests, what? LaLiga also indicates that the orders oblige LaLiga and Telefónica to “preserve sufficient digital evidence of the illicit broadcast of the protected content” to notify the defendants. This requirement is a measure to legally ensure that the IPs that are ordered to be blocked were actually being used for these illegal broadcasts. They are not Spanish companies. There is some uncertainty here about whether these companies, which have headquarters outside the EU (like Panama in the case of NordVPN), will comply with an order from a Spanish court of first instance. If they don’t, national operators could be forced to block those VPN providers’ own nodes, but this is an even more drastic and terrible scenario: under the current announcement, users can continue using NordVPN and ProtonVPN normally for everything, but they will be just as affected by the blocks as if they were not using those VPNs. If this other measure were applied, it would not be possible to access these providers conventionally in Spain. VPNs filtering content? If they have to comply with these regulations, VPNs could become dangerous intermediaries for all the content that is transferred through their services. Many users take advantage of the layer of privacy these VPNs offer for teleworking and secure connections, but if VPNs agree to filter content, users could lose critical network access tools. What LaLiga says is one thing, what NordVPN and ProtonVPN do is another.. This entire process is still at an uncertain moment, because no matter how much LaLiga has achieved such privileges, it remains to be seen whether these suppliers will comply with these decisions. So, we will see how these suppliers respond to these demands. In Xataka | Football has become the anchor of operator subscriptions. And LaLiga is making more money than ever

This is how companies live the Laliga IPS blockages

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In early March Fernando Arancón, director of The world orderHe noticed that his website ceased to be inaccessible. “At first the web fell and we didn’t know why,” he tells us. They soon knew the reason. The culprit was LaLigawho was ordering Mass and indiscriminate blockages of IPS of Cloudflare. They, like many other businesses based on online sites and platforms, use Cloudflare services to distribute their contents efficiently but also to protect themselves from bots attacks. Reputational damage matters, and much That, however, began to condemn them: “Every time there was an important game, the web fell”Although he points out that he did not do it for all users, logically because there were operators who did not apply those blockages so drastically. From that moment on, Arancón explains that “there are weeks in which we have four days the fallen website in the most traffic hours.” They especially notice it on weekends, but also when there are Champions. Fortunately for them the impact is somewhat less than that it might think because “we do not have many advertising income, we rely on the subscription model”, but still that impact exists. “We cannot quantify the impact,” he explained to us, because there is no easy way to do it and measure how many subscriptions have not been completed because they do not have the website available, but It is evident that the impact exists and “it is embedded in the windows in which these great matches are broadcast.” But what they received, especially at the beginning, were complaints. Their subscribers contacted them to launch messages of the type “go service, I pay for this?”, What of course worried those responsible for this medium. “At first we had to do an important exercise to explain to the audience what was happening.” That effort had its result, because “people have ended up understanding.” 30% less traffic The problem affects many more legitimate businesses. He told us about it Uxío Fraga (@Uxio_ntc), founder and CEO of Bitcoin materiala company that has created a bitcoin purse. As in the case of Arancón, Fraga explained that they began to notice the cuts from the beginning, in March: “It was very clear that something happened.” Initially they thought it was a passenger problem. “We thought it would be solved, that Cloudflare would take action,” but little by little they realized that the problem was not cloudflare, but rather of LaLiga and the operators, which not only did not maintain the IPS blocks, but that they were increasing them. For Bitcoin material, which lives from the sales of its Bitcoin wallets, the impact has been enormous. “In weekends, traffic falls 30%”stood out, and that logically affects access to a store on which they depend and in which they cannot sell their products if the web is not accessible. As in other types of business, the problem for Fraga is that there are no easy ways to solve the problem. Cloudflare has become a giant that is especially useful when avoiding attacks on service denial (DDOS) and other types of attacks made with bots. They are considering trying to Google CDN, but doing so is a technical challenge and they don’t know if that can be the solution. Meanwhile, yes, Fraga showed his concern about the situation: “That a judge has given white letter to this is an aberration“Fortunately, your user and customer community is very faithful and have not received complaints although the issue is commented, but once again the impact is there and there is little that those affected, whether companies or not, can do. They tell thunder. This well -known company develops products oriented to the NAS segment, but these days it is also noticing the impact of the problem. There are several users who have complained about the impossibility of using the products properly, and the firm itself ended up denouncing the problem and trying to explain to users what was happening. There are many users trying to inform the general public with Complaints and comments at X When these blockages are produced. In LaLiga not only do they seem to have reinforced their attacks, but they are legally threatening Cloudflare customers that share IPS with IPTV service websites that are used to watch football illegitimately. The operators, meanwhile, continue to respond to customer complaints explaining that the blockages do not depend on them, and that they are obliged to meet the requirements of justice. A justice that already He dismissed the Amparo resources presented by rootedcon and cloudflare separately and still does not raise solutions. The legal process, now in the hands of the consitional courtit can be extended remarkably. The solution to the problem for those affected is too risky: if they deactivate cloudflare on their platforms They are exposed to cyber attacks They can end up being even more harmful to their businesses, so they are usually with their hands tied. For users, yes, The solution is very simple: It is enough to use a VPN – even one free – to geolocate its IP simulated in another country and thus skip these blockages, which only affect Spanish IPS shared in Cloudflare. In Xataka | “Every time there is football, the website falls”: the collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

We knew that LaLiga IPS blocks have been massive and indiscriminate. What we didn’t know was to what extent

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In the last three months There are many users and companies that have complained about indiscriminate blockages of IPS Sorted by LaLiga. Analysis had already appeared that these blockages They affected thousands of websitesbut in reality its dimension is much greater. 2.7 million affected domains. Jaume Pons (@jaumepons), Systems administrator, it has been monitoring how LaLiga IPS blocks have affected various domains and websites. In its last analysis, it highlights how on the last weekend league day it reveals that in total 2,699,517 .com, .net and .org domains have been affected. This expert has also published the listings with all the affected domains. Thousands of domains .es. The parallel analysis of this expert during the weekend revealed how only Saturday afternoon-even from the celebration of Barça-Madrid) on Sunday They affected 15,432 domains .esthat again they were inaccessible to Spanish Internet users. They are Digi data. We have been able to talk to Jaume Pons and explained that his analysis focuses on the blockages that end up being managed by the DIGI operator, which is the one he has hired. In other operators the situation may be different. A massive analysis. This systems administrator explained the analysis process, which begins with A petition to Icann of the DNS zones of the domains that this organism manages (.com, .net,, org, among the main ones). There are about 300 million, but Pons then focuses on those who point to the cloudflare DNS, which makes the list reduce about 16-17 million. Crossing data. From there it is possible to make a tracking by solving those DNS to know what IPS these domains point to. When doing Digi requests it is possible to detect if it appears The typical warning message which shows the temporary block warning or not. And in doing so the domains of the original list that have effectively have been blocked by DIGI during the emissions of the LaLiga matches are confirmed. The complete analysis process is completed in about two hours, and allows us to understand the enormous dimension of the problem. Very visited websites are inaccessible. Pons himself explains that the Builtwith platform creates a list with the million most important domains per traffic every month. Laliga IPS blockades affected this weekend 21,914 domains of those who integrate that list. Among the examples are many electronic commerce stores that may undoubtedly have suffered economic and reputational losses. Among those affected, Steam and X (Twitter). But there have also been platforms like Steam or X (Before Twitter) with which users have had problems. So much In that social network as In Reddit Messages appeared indicating how some games of games and even saved games disappeared from the Steam Deck. Incalculable economic and reputational damage. The damage to users and companies is perpetuated with these blockages. We already talked to several of those affected, and in one of the cases it was indicated how the blockages had caused that of the 70,000 euros per month they entered had come to enter about 40,000. A list of affected collects estimates of losses by these companies, and those who have signed up already claim to have lost More than a quarter of a million euros Because of these blockages. The season ends. The blockages will foreseeably end when LaLiga ends at the end of May, but until then users will continue to suffer those problems of access to hundreds of thousands of websites. The question, of course, is whether these blockages They will continue to be produced When you start next season. Damage to third parties continues. It doesn’t matter that affected web domains have greater or lesser traffic: Damage to third parties existsand we are always talking about legitimate domains and websites. At the moment justice still does not act, and in fact rejected the request for nullity of the sentence that allows LaLiga to continue ordering those blockages. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | LaLiga has found the best way to beat Cloudflare: ally with its competition

On Sunday, Barça-Madrid is played and there will be Laliga IPS blockages. Users have an easy solution, companies do not

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Next Sunday, at 4:15 p.m., Barcelona-Real Madrid will be played of the Spanish First Division of Spanish. Taking into account what we have lived in the last three months, It seems inevitable Let us live new indiscriminate blockages of IPS by LaLiga. This website is not accessible. Once again what seems clear is that They will pay fair for sinners With constant websites that we cannot access. The persecution of IPTV illegal retransmissions is making Companies entering 70,000 euros per month are 40,000. There is clear economic and reputational damage, but there is a clear dichotomy here: for users it is easy to avoid those blockages, but for those who have a website, not so much. Hello, VPN. Since IPS blockades began by LaLiga It was clear that the only effective solution to avoid them on the user’s side was to use A VPN service. Here The options are multiple and in all cases they usually allow to continue enjoying normal access to all services despite the blockages imposed by LaLiga. It is not a 100% infallible method, but it is certainly the safest to avoid these problems. Why this method works. These services allow the IP address provided by the operator to change to a different one that will also belong to the country you choose. If LaLiga does not apply blockages to those countries from which the connection or IP of that VPN server is simulated, it is not in the Spanish ISP lock list, we can normally access the content. And packages encryption. In addition, the VPN encrypt the connection between our device and the VPN server, which makes it greatly difficult for operators or other intermediaries to inspect the traffic content to try to make a selective blockade of certain transmissions. Companies have it much more complicated. VPN services are perfect for users to “jump” LaLiga IPS blockages, but companies affected by blockages do not have it so easy. The reason is that these companies do not depend on themselves, but often have hired Cloudflare services. This company optimizes access to companies’s websites and protects them from possible cyber attacks, but when LaLiga orders to block certain IPS, the operators execute that order and many of them belong to Cloudflare. And there is the problem. The condemnation of shared IPS. Cloudflare, like its competitors, make use of shared IPS To manage all its customers. The same IP is assigned to hundreds or thousands of domains, and then it is cloudflare who is responsible for redirect access to each of them. But if LaLiga and the operators They block an IPThey block access to all domains that share that IP, whether it is legitimate and if it is not. Those who are using Cloudflare and other CDNs affected such as Bunnycdn are therefore impacted: users find that access to those domains is suddenly cut. The remedy is worse than the disease. The only solution for companies is to deactivate the service provided by Cloudflare. That means that they are not affected by blockages, but implies important risks. Cloudflare, for example, avoid (or mitigate significantly) possible service denial attacks that “throw” websites. It also prevents bots from tracking the web can end up unpaid in charging times or in the consumption of server resources. Without the Cloudflare and the like service, the exhibition of the websites of any company in the face of attacks or overloads is remarkable. The remedy can become worse than the disease. New LaLiga Tactics. Those responsible for LaLiga have reinforced their offensive with a curious tactic: Reach agreements with Cloudflare competitors like Vercel, Akamai or CDN77. In LaLiga they promise that these services – which collaborate in the fight against broadcasts – will not affect third parties during blockages, but with that type of alliance there is a great sacrificed: the privacy of customers, which can no longer be shield in those services. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | “Every time there is football, the website falls”: the collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

We have been in LaLiga IPS for three months. The worrying thing is that they are not going unless, but more

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During the last three monthsLaLiga has not stopped ordering IPS blockages to fight against illegal soccer matches through IPTV services. These blockages have only intensified, and more and more affected legitimate websites are. The last victim: Twitch. Intensive blocks. Sergio Conde, an engineer at Tinybird, monitored the blockages and published his conclusions in X. There highlighted How the blockades affected twice IPS on Sunday – with Real Madrid game – compared to Saturday. During this meeting other users They showed As 12 cloudflare DNS servers were fallen. What about Twitch. These blockages are also producing more and more intensive and extend even at times when there are no broadcasts of LaLiga. Last Friday Some of the IPS included in the blockages were used by Twitch, although they point out In TorrentfreakThey affected the streamers irregularly. It is surprising that even that service is affected, especially considering that LaLiga maintains good commercial relations with Amazon/Twitch and there has already been joint projects Between both companies. More and more affected. Eduardo Saldaña, co -director of the middle the world order, complained in x last Saturday when its platform – a legitimate company, Like so many others affected– It was inaccessible. “Our case is one of many others,” he said. “There are thousands of pages and companies that are affected their activity by the sentence in favor of the Football League …”. For him this “is the same as bombing a neighborhood because there are two floors that traffic with drugs”, explained. And economic and reputational losses follow. What Conde raised is the same as many users and companies that have seen how their businesses end up economically or reputationally harmed by these IPS blockages. We already talked to some of the victims of these LaLiga actions that told us how they had noticed diverse impacts at an economic level, and in one of the cases they highlighted us how “We have gone from entering 70,000 euros per month to 40,000” And “unemployed” websites. But in addition to these problems for companies or users who offer their blocked IPS contents, there is the damage to users, who still cannot access websites of all kinds. The domino effect of the blockade has caused singular situations: Sponsors of teams of the First Division Soccer League have been inaccessible, as websites have also done like that of the Royal Academy of Language. IPS blocks usually last hours, but in some cases these blockages are indefinite and have been active weeks. Not only cloudflare. On the website Is there now football? It is possible to monitor the state of the blockages, and there you can check in the “Timeline” section how during the weekend the blockages to several IPS were notable during the retransmission of LaLiga matches, from 4:00 p.m. to 00:00. These blockages, of course, affected Cloudflare IPS, but also to other CDNs. In the case of getting or quic.cloud, some IPS literally have literally blocked weeks. Without forecasting to change anything. LaLiga’s insistence on this type of blocks suggests that at least until the current league season does not finish – at the end of May – the blockages will continue to be produced. There are no news In the legal fieldand the question, of course, is what will happen later. The sentence In which LaLiga is supported, it extends until season 2026/27 included, which could lengthen these problems until then. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | “Every time there is football, the website falls”: the collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

“LaLiga has hacked the law” with IPS blocks

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The Rootedcon event is one of the referents of the cybersecurity segment in Spain and worldwide, but this afternoon it has been something else. There those responsible have organized a round table entitled “Thebes to run out of football.” The word game was just detail, because those who participated there are clear that you have to stop LaLiga. Background. In early February they began to occur indiscriminate blockages of IPS that left Spanish Internet users out of play. It was soon discovered that the blockades had been ordered by LaLiga, which tried to avoid illegal soccer broadcasts in IPTV services. These actions were based on Disposable legal argumentsand all this ended up detonating The war between LaLiga and Cloudflare Due to her they began to pay just for sinnerswith many users and companies affected by blockages and losing business during those cuts. Rootedcon is activated. The situation ended up causing Rooted with began to take action on the matter. Your responsible Victims data began to collect of these blockages to initiate potential legal actions. While, Cloudflare began its own legal actions Against LaLiga, accusing the blockages of “clumsy and ineffective.” LaLiga He replied To this demand, and a few days later we learned that Rootedcon had submitted a Nullity incident to try to make the sentence used by LaLiga – a manager with “legal tricks” according to RootedCon experts – could not be applied. Thomas Ledo. Disproportionate actions. On the round table, moderate by Omar Benbouzza (@omarbv), participated among other Tomás Ledo (@Toplus), co -founder and CEO of the technocratic company. According to him what LaLiga was doing was “how to close a whole shopping center because a bar inside is putting the game for IPTV”. The analogy is clear: the IPS blockades, as we say, cause potentially tens of thousands of fully legitimate web sites and services, with the damage that that can cause to those responsible. Javier Maestre. Soccer has no intellectual property. Javier A. Master (@Javieramastre), by Master Abogados, was another of the table participants. Maestre is RootedCon’s lawyer, and a few days ago he published ‘The Affaire Cloudflare‘Explaining the legal situation in this area. Both there and in the talk he remembered that Soccer has no intellectual propertyand also used an analogy to explain it. “When you take a picture of a landscape, the landscape has no intellectual property, but the photo does.” The same with football: the recording (the signal) does have intellectual property, but football is not. According to Maestre, LaLiga went several times to judicial bodies to get what he pursued. Omar Benbouzza. A first attempt from LaLiga. A car of the Provincial Court of Pontevedra of June 2019 is the first to It appears in Cendoj with reference to attributing production and realization functions. LaLiga then tried to attribute these functions, but the car made it clear that: “These statements are not correct in their entirety (…) Therefore, in no way can it be considered that LaLiga has attributed the functions of production and realization of the audiovisual recording but only of marketing of audiovisual rights and of control of production and realization to establish the same pattern that guarantees a common style. Nothing more.” That attempt failed for LaLiga, and it was indicated that “an intellectual property right would not have been accredited.” The thing did not end there. Capucera Judgment. Maestre indicated that LaLiga continued to insist until she achieved her purpose. In a judgment of the Valencia Court of March 1, 2021, It was indicated that: “In the first place, it must be left, as a proven fact, that the National Professional Soccer League, which acts as a complainant and particular accusation in this cause, It is, by the Ministry of Law, the only assignee of the marketing powers Joint of the audiovisual rights of the National and Second Division League Championship and of the His Majesty Cup the King, with the exception of the final of said competition, having legally attributed, the functions of production and realization of your audiovisual recording, as well as the authorization rights of your public communication, reproduction and distribution “. That “Capucera Judgment”, as Master explained, made these functions attribute to him, but according to this expert that does not make the celebrities apply Articles 138 and 139 of the Intellectual Property Law because said law was not modified. For him “LaLiga has hacked the law.” Ofelia Tejerina. The hackers are we, the cybercriminals them. OFELIA TEJERINA (@Fetg), lawyer and president of the Association of Internet users, also participated in that round table. Remembered how this was like a déjà vu After everything that happened With the Sinde lawand that LaLiga has already proven not to do things well. He was recently seen with the fine imposed by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) by biometric recognition systems. For this expert those who were violating the law and various fundamental rights (Ideological, religious and worship freedom – artico 16—, Freedom of expression and information – article 20—, or the right to effective judicial protection – articles 24—) were responsible for LaLiga. The word hacker has often had negative connotations, but he wanted to make them take them to make it clear that in this case “the hackers are us, the cybercriminals are them (LaLiga).” Román Ramírez. This may be the beginning of something really bad. For Román Ramírez (@patowc), confunder and CEO of Rootedcon, which is happening with these attacks on Cloudflare It is just the beginning of something more dangerous. “This goes against all CDNs,” he explained, and pointed out with Master how there have always been excuses to try to “cut off internet freedom.” They put examples such as those of the money laundering, terrorism or, now, the violation of intellectual property rights. “If this works (A LaLiga) with the base of intellectual property, then they will apply it with the excuse of fake news, for example,” and that could give rise to a much more strong control of … Read more

LaLiga IPS blockages are based on a mysterious judicial sentence. Rootedcon is trying to legally cancel it

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The War between LaLiga and Cloudflare The IPS blockages ordered by LaLiga to fight against illegal soccer matches leave thousands of websites, but for a few days there are an effort specifically aimed at trying to end the problem. Rootcon against the sentence in which LaLiga is shield. Those responsible for Rootedcon They organized two weeks ago an initiative to collect data and testimonies of those affected. These are companies or people who have seen how their websites – totally legitimate – have been harmed and have ceased to be temporarily accessible during those IPS blockages. That may also have caused economic losses, but the situation persists without being a solution on the horizon. Legal Arthimañas. That is precisely what Rootedcon is trying to do, which has announced that he has raised: “An incident of nullity in the Commercial Court number 6 of Barcelona, ​​against Judgment No. 310/2024, dated December 18, 2024, achieved through legal arthingswhich is used by the League to force operators to block and restrict Internet access in their fight against “piracy” at the request of the football company. This ruling, and the way in which it is being used, violates fundamental rights and limits free access to information, a right that we consider unnegotiable. “ Request for nullity for the sentence. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Rootedcon, who have explained that this process is not a legal lawsuit as such, but a petition so that this sentence on which LaLiga is supported is annulled. This sentence has been difficult to locate, and according to rootedcon it should be annulled by violating fundamental rights. There is damage to third parties. As we already explained, the procedures in which LaLiga is shielded They are debatable at the legal levelespecially because the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures (the IPS blocks) have been executed anyway. Defense of Freedom of Expression. For rooted with this conflict is being used “to justify actions that limit access to content in the network” and that constitutes “an injustice against freedoms of expression and information.” As they explain in their communication, this blockade “is massive and not only affects the assumptions cybercriminals, but economically impacts the activity of many organizations and companies.” There are currently more than 140,000 websites using Cloudflare services. Not everyone has been affected by the cuts, but of course a part of them. Source: Builtwith. About 140,000 affected potentials. An analysis of the IPS blocked in Cloudflare shows how these IPS are being shared at the moment For more than 140,000 websites. Not everyone is inaccessible, of course: it depends on the services that these websites have hired with this company. However, in that list are all kinds of companies: from the media (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, RTVE) to large companies such as Carrefour, Decathlon, Idealist or Pccomponent) and of course websites of more modest projects that are also losing business opportunities for those blockages. And among them, football team websites. Ironically, lalaiga -instructed locks They are also affecting to the websites of First Division equipment. A systems administrator called Jaume Pons has been tracking these blockages for some time and last weekend he warned how the Girona FC online store It was inaccessibleas had also happened to the Valencia CF website either To Kelmesponsor of the Spanish RCD. The legal battle continues. Blocks too. The situation remains worrying for users and companies that legitimately use Internet services in our country. They have become involuntary victims of a Legal battle between LaLiga and Cloudflare that at the moment does not seem to have a solution. The latter began legal actions against LaLigabut there have been no changes in the way of acting of LaLiga, which continues to order these blockages and affect thousands and thousands of users. Image | Madrid athletic In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

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

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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. “ In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

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

LaLiga is still determined to block IPS. Not clear that I can do it legally

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The War between LaLiga with Cloudflare It is intensifying, and this last weekend we have seen how websites blockages (legitimate or not) Not only have they been repeated but have gone to more. There is despite doubts about the validity of these measures, and that is where it is good to explain what their legal support is. The context and the problem. LaLiga, in contact with the operators, has implemented measures that affect the services provided by cloudflare to its users. IPS (dynamic, according to LaLiga) are aimed at avoiding the illegal broadcast of football matches, but are affecting thousands of legitimate web sites and services. The reason: in Cloudflare IPS are shared and when one is blocked, all the sites associated with it are blocked. The background. The contents industry protected by intellectual property has been looking for mechanisms for years to protect your business. Among them is the modification of the legislation to for example try to avoid (or minimize) judicial intervention. That happened for example With the Sinde law. Article 138 of the Intellectual Property Law. Javier A. Master (@Javieramastre), by Maestre Abogados, published last Friday an extensive analysis entitled ‘The Affaire Cloudflare‘Explaining in detail the legal situation in this area. How he said, the mechanisms of the Sinde law “were not agile enough”, and for that is the art. 138 of the Intellectual Property Law (LPI), which in essence allows rights holders to request urgent precautionary measures against intermediaries that facilitate infractions, without the need to demonstrate that the intermediary is also offender. LaLiga “demands” the operators. What allow both art. 138 As the 139 of the LPI is that the owner of the rights can directly sue the service providers (the operators) instead of the direct offenders. For Master the situation is as follows: “With this trick, everyone is stored for each other: The plaintiffs: we only ask for the measures. It is the judge who agrees. The judge: one is asking for one, the defendant is paved. I have to grant the request. The operator: I have to pay attention to the judge. “ Violation of freedom of expression. This expert adds that these closures occur without giving those affected the opportunity to defend themselves, “in a flagrant violation of both freedom of expression and information (art. 20 of the Constitution) and of the right to effective judicial protection (art. 24 of the Constitution) “. This process effectively avoids the participation of the parties really affected in the litigation. But it should not be able to apply in this case. These measures are oriented to the urgent precautionary scope, but for example the Provincial Court of Barcelona interpreted in 2018 that these measures can be applied beyond this area. Thus, the sentence said, “it is established, for the first time, the possibility of requesting precautionary measures against intermediaries whose services use a third to violate intellectual property rights, without the requirement that the intermediary is also offender.” And the evidence, what?. In that “doubtful constitutionality,” says Maestre, there is continuously talk about “urgent precautionary measures.” However, the audition was established at least “the need for a finding of the existence of infraction,” that is, proof that this violation of intellectual property is taking place. In the case of Cloudflare, the measures are based on a technical report that has not been contrasted, and the measures apply without those affected being able to defend themselves. Plaintiffs and defendants united in collusion. Maestre points out that demanding (LaLiga) and defendants (operators such as Movistar) act in collusion in the judicial process to achieve the restriction of services without those affected being able to defend themselves. The PREVIOUS CASE JUDGMENTS They are shielding that the supposed offenders had not been “identified or located”, which would make it impossible for their defense to participate. Master makes it clear that in this case “Cloudflare is perfectly identified.” But there is damage to third parties. This expert stands out how the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures have been executed anyway. Violated fundamental rights. All this points to a potential violation of several fundamental legal principles, including the Article 24 of the Constitution Spanish that guarantees the right to be heard and defend itself in a judicial process. In addition, Spanish legislation, through articles 270 of the LOPJ and 150 of the LEC, force to notify the judicial resolutions both to the parts of the process and to those who could be affected by them. According to Master, this obligation has been ignored. Images | WIRESTOCK | LaLiga In Xataka | The government wants to end unwanted commercial calls. The question is whether they will stop calling us “by Indeed”

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