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Cloudflare is planted in Italy due to blockades. In Spain, the conflict with LaLiga points to the same underlying problem

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We are witnessing firsthand how what began as an offensive against unauthorized party broadcasts has transformed into something much broader, a dispute over who can decide which parts of the internet are turned off and how. In Italy and Spain, judicial and administrative resolutions that apply current legislation are endorsing or ordering measures that operate at the network level, measures that, as they are now being applied, may not distinguish between an infringing service and legitimate services that share infrastructure. This scenario has brought to the fore cloudflarea company whose name has been sneaking into the technology conversation for some time. Here we must be clear. What unites the cases of Italy and Spain is not the type of content, but the logic that supports them: to stop the unauthorized dissemination of matches, it has been decided to act where the network becomes vulnerable, in the intermediaries that connect the public with the servers. It is not a button in the hands of a government, but rather a fit between laws, judges or regulators, rights holders and different actors who execute the measure. That strategy allows you to block quickly and with massive range, but it also has collateral damage. Behind every block there is a clear sequence. In Spain, LaLiga takes its requests before a judge and it is the courts that authorize the operators to execute the cuts. In Italy, rights holders enter domains and IPs into Piracy Shield and it is AGCOMthe Italian telecommunications and media regulator, who reviews these signs and converts them into administrative orders that providers must apply. When an authority orders a block, it is not simply saying “close this page”, it is choosing at what point in the journey the connection between the user and the server is interrupted, according to the limits established by current legislation. This can be done by preventing the website name from being translated into a technical address, directly blocking that address, or asking an intermediary to stop serving the data. In this invisible journey there is a particularly sensitive piece, the system that translates website names into technical addresses that computers can understand. Every time we type a URL or tap a link, a DNS resolver responds with the correct IP so the connection can be established. If this translation is interrupted, the page is no longer accessible even if the server continues to function. That is why DNS has become a very attractive lever for blocking, because it allows access to be cut off quickly and without directly touching the content. What is 1.1.1.1 and why is it in the center. Among the many DNS services that exist, there are some open to the public that do not belong to any national operator, and the best known is 1.1.1.1, managed by Cloudflare. It serves as a widely used public DNS resolver that users and applications use to translate domain names into IP addresses. That scale is what makes it especially sensitive in this debate, because any intervention on it is not limited to a country or a specific network, but can have much broader effects. A modem with network cables The company explains For years it has been able to comply with court orders that force it to act on specific clients or on its distribution network, because there it is controlling its own service within a jurisdiction. What it rejects is modifying open tools such as its public DNS by administrative decisions of a single country. In his approach, that would mean that a national authority could change how a basic piece of the internet works for users around the world. Italy, the Piracy Shield system and controversies. The Italian model does not just cut individual pages, but entire pieces of the route along which traffic circulates. Through Piracy Shield domains and IPs are ordered to be blocked and, according to the regulator itselfthe framework also expressly includes public DNS services and VPN providers as obligated parties when they are involved in the accessibility of that content. Cloudflare Global Network Map The problem is not only that the system blocks a lot, but how it does it and with what margin for rectification. Its quick reaction logic prioritizes cutting access while the event is happening, and that increases the risk of affecting third parties when acting on shared parts of the network. AGCOM quotes as balance that since February 2024, more than 65,000 FQDNs, that is, fully qualified domain names and about 14,000 IPs, have been disabled. That clash took concrete form at the end of 2025. In a decision taken on December 29 and recently notifiedAGCOM imposed a penalty of more than 14 million euros on Cloudflare for failing to comply with a previous order issued on February 18, 2025. According to the regulator, the company had to deactivate the DNS resolution of certain domains and the routing of traffic to IP addresses indicated through Piracy Shield, or apply equivalent measures to prevent users from accessing that content. Spain, the judicial path. As we mentioned above, in Spain the system is not based on an administrative regulator, but on a resolution from a commercial court obtained by LaLiga. On December 18, 2024, the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona authorized blocking measures against addresses used to broadcast matches without rights. On March 26, 2025, that same court rejected the challenges and left the order in force. That is what allows access operators to execute these blocks during matches under the direct legal coverage of a judge. The way that order is executed in practice explains many of the complaints that have arisen in Spain. Access providers block entire IP addresses, not just specific domains. This mechanism explains why so many legitimate services end up dragged down by these blocks. Instead of deactivating a specific domain, operators sever an entire IP address, which is often shared by hundreds or thousands of websites. It’s a bit like boarding up the entrance to a building … Read more

Football has become the anchor of operator subscriptions. And LaLiga is making more money than ever

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It is not necessary to consult reports to understand that, for many, life has become more expensive faster than salaries. Many of us check this when making a purchase, looking for a home or renewing insurance. Even so, there are few consumer decisions that endure as much as football. Not only do we continue to see it, but it is more present than ever in the television packages, in the bars, on the platforms and in the subscriptions we take out. This prominence is not only reflected in the way we consume it, but also in how it is valued as a product. LaLiga, the organization that manages professional competitions in Spain, has awarded the domestic audiovisual rights for the new cyclewhich will cover from 2027/28 to 2031/32. The result marks a historical maximum: 6,135 million euros, 9% more than the previous cycle. Telefónica and DAZN will repeat as partners, ensuring the broadcast and exploitation of the content for five more seasons. Where do the 6,135 million come from? The record figure is not explained only by households, but by the diversification of the product. The residential block represents 5,250 million euros, but the segment HORECAwhich includes bars, public premises and hospitality establishments, is close to 650 million. LaLiga Hypermotionwhich is the Second Division and takes its name from the Hypermotion technology used in soccer video games, contributes about 175 million. Added to this are more than 60 million in open rights and summaries. Football is no longer sold in a single format. Football as an anchor for subscriptions. For streaming operators and platforms, football has become the product capable of sustaining their business models. It’s no longer just about gaining users, as PwC warns and Simon-Kucher Consultingbecause the market is beginning to show clear signs of saturation, but of obtaining more income from each subscriber. And there football is decisive. Telefónica, with Movistar Plus+, and DAZN have opted to maintain the rights because it allows them to maintain customers, justify prices and build packages that cannot be understood without this content. That football continues to be part of our social life is reflected in the figure for the HORECA segment: close to 650 million euros, compared to 500 million in the previous cycle. The bars and restaurants that hire the service not only offer the content, they offer a place to experience it in company. LaLiga knows that the value is not only in the broadcast, but in the environment that accompanies it. Second division, HYPERMOTION brand and added value. With Hypermotion, LaLiga has turned its Second Division into an audiovisual product with its own entity. Not only does the name change: the way of presenting and exploiting it changes. This block, as we say, will contribute around 175 million euros, 40% more than in the previous cycle. The crusade against illegal emissions. Part of the increase in value is explained byLaLiga’s crusade against illegal broadcasts. The organization has intensified control over platforms that distributed content without authorization, with legal actions that have generated debate, like the case of Cloudflare. Javier Tebas defends that this strategy It has allowed “increasing the number of operators’ users” and reinforcing confidence in the product. It has not been without controversy, but LaLiga maintains that it has had a real impact on the market. The agreement not only brings income, but also time. LaLiga points out that a five-year cycle offers clubs and operators sufficient margin to plan, renew contracts, invest in technology and reinforce the audiovisual structure. By bringing forward the trend and detaching it from the new UEFA framework, the competition avoided the negative effects that other European leagues have faced. The message we want to convey is stability, legal security and continuity of the model. What does all this mean? This model has a direct link with consumer habits. Increasingly, platforms are designing their packages thinking about who is willing to pay more for certain content, and football fits into that category. It doesn’t just attract users, it retains them and gives them reasons to stay. This behavior explains why football maintains its central position in the catalog and why companies consider it a strategic piece. Images | LaLiga In Xataka | The NFL was going to place the Bernabéu in the center of the United States. Americans have not been impressed

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

LaLiga can no longer monetize her matches in Spain. So start playing them where: USA

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LaLiga is about to get what she has been trying since 2018: playing an official game in the United States. Villarreal-Barcelona on December 20 in Miami It is the official recognition that European football has accepted that its future is to stop belonging only to the cities it represents. Why now. Several stars aligned to complete a long process: The game will be played seven months before the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The country will be more receptive than ever football. Messi – precisely in Miami – is accelerating the consolidation of the MLS, against LaLiga’s interests. Television rights in Spain seem to have touched roof, it is a product marketed with an offer tension by The current model. There seems to be margin to raise prices for a business, that of football, which wants to continue growing so as not to be left behind the Premier League. And to stop the fugging of talent to the Premier itself or the Saudi league. Meanwhile, The US market offers the perfect combination To continue growing: More than 60 million Hispanics interested in football. High purchasing power. A Prime Time favorable that Asia cannot match. The equation. A game in Miami can generate 50 million euros direct compared to the 5 million it would generate in the Ceramic Stadium. With more than half of LaLiga’s income, coming from international rights, this is an anticipated movement. It was seen coming. LaLiga in fact He has been with physical presence for years in the United States by growing up there. No movement is a greater jump than hosting an official party. Not a friendly summer, but one with points at stake. The selection. Barça was essential to be a global brand that moves large audiences. Real Madrid is as much or more, but His very long open war with LaLiga He made his participation unfeasible. The Villarreal is also convenient: team attract enough (this year plays Champions) but at the same time manageable with its 20,000 members. Its president He has promised free trips to Miami For all the partners who want to attend. Those who do not want to travel will receive the return of 20% of the price of their fertilizer, although only one game will be lost, 5% of those played in the League. It is a patch that works for a club of its dimension in this first displacement, but it will hardly be sustainable if the parties abroad are normalized. The precedent. If everything goes as expected and LaLiga wishes, with FIFA and UEFA giving green light next to a RFEF that has already authorized it, there will be no turning back. In five years we can expect much more than a single match a year and not only in LaLiga, also in other important European leagues that seek to grow. Presumably, series A and Bundesliga. The transformation. Football is no longer a social ritual of citizen representation to become global content with consumers. The parties will go where the money is, not where the roots are. It is the same logic that the Club World Cup has taken to the United States and The Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. NBA and NFL They have been doing this for a decade. European football has simply defeated the taboo that caused the strong local roots of its clubs. And now what. This is not the end of the process but the beginning. Local fans who have paid fertilizers, t-shirts and television rights for decades will meet some games-in the case of Villarreal-Barça, perhaps the best of the season-playing thousands of kilometers. This is neither good nor bad per sealthough it will generate discrepancies among local fans who reject this model. It is the logical consequence of a sport that bills as a global industry but mostly continues to operate with local structures. LaLiga is not innovating, it is doing the same as other sports for ten years. The question is not whether this should happen or not, it has already happened. The question is what other European football traditions are about to fall. From Xataka We have contacted LaLiga to know its vision of this movement, but the organization has preferred not to make statements at the moment. In Xataka | The new Ibai football team already has a name and field. The problem is that the most important thing lacks: tradition Outstanding image | LaLiga

Chema Alonso has signed for Cloudflare and the RFEF after leaving Telefónica. This creates a strange situation for LaLiga

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Chema Alonso has converted His departure from Telefónica In March in the most controversial play of the year in Spanish football. In a few weeks he has formalized his total departure from Telefónica, He has signed as a technological advisor of the RFEF Arbitral Technical Committeeand now he has announced his arrival in Cloudflare as Vice President for International Development. Why is it important. It is a very peculiar role change. Alonso now works simultaneously for two organizations that maintain structural conflicts with LaLiga: The RFEF, historical rival for the control of Spanish football, with the battle intensified in recent years. And Cloudflare, a company that LaLiga accuses of “collaborating with criminal organizations” by protecting more than 50% of the websites that are illegally soccer. The context. For more than a decade in Telefónica, Alonso had privileged access to LaLiga antipiratry strategies. Telefónica is more than who issues LaLiga: it is their strategic partner, fundamental in the fight against illegal emissions and who technically executes judicial blockages. Audiovisual rights represent 40-50% of LaLiga’s income, and Movistar Plus+ is its largest buyer. The irony is that the man who helped to design antipiratía defenses now works for those who help to overcome them. The facts. Cloudflare maintains an open war with LaLiga. The company has implemented privacy protection technologies that also hinder illegal content tracking: dynamic IP changes, HTTP port blocking, anonymization systems … and above all, Ech. LaLiga got judicial orders in recent months to block Cloudflare IPS during the parties, which affected thousands of legitimate websites that were left without service. Cloudflare demanded from LaLiga for these blockages, but Justice rejected it And it was In the hands of the Constitutional. In parallel, LaLiga and the RFEF fight a constant battle for calendars, schedules, disciplinary jurisdiction and audiovisual rights. They are not partners that cooperate, rather they are institutional rivals who have starred several struggles for the control of schedules, that of the Super Cup or The institutional battle that starred Thebes and Rubiales. For his part, Telefónica spent months on the war between LaLiga and Cloudflare, but He ended up taking sides. Obviously, for the first. Between the lines. He Timing It does not seem accidental. Three strategic movements in a few months. Alonso is positioned as the only actor with direct influence on two fronts against LaLiga. And armed with privileged information about their strategies. Your appointment in the RFEF will give access to arbitral systems. And from Cloudflare, he knows how LaLiga operates after so many years in his partner: his possible technical weaknesses, internal processes, calendars of legal actions. In perspective. Cloudflare could well be executing a “regulatory capture” operation: place someone with technical credibility in the regulatory body, influence the technological policies of Spanish football from within, neutralize future antipirable regulations. For the company, hiring Alonso is recruiting someone with knowledge Insider As few have. And that makes him an extraordinarily valuable asset. Yes, but. The situation raises unanswered questions. Did Telefónica know Alonso’s plans when he said goodbye? Was your departure completely involuntary? Can LaLiga legally challenge your appointment in the RFEF for conflict of interest? What we do know is that the signing for cloudflare does not imply a conflict with Telefónica for possible agreements for exit, as we have been able to know by knowledgeable sources of the matter. From Xataka We have contacted LaLiga, who has declined to comment on this. The same has exposed Telefónica. We have also tried to contact Chema Alonso, without success: The ‘contact’ section of its website It only offers as contact methods a postal address and the possibility of sending previous messages using the platform Mypublicinboxa company of which it is a shareholder and promoter. In Xataka | What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail Outstanding image | Telefónica, Gregorio Cavana

Where to see LaLiga EA Sports 25/26, the First Division in this next season

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We are going to tell you where you can see the games of the next LaLiga season in Spain. It is the 25/26 season of LaLiga EA Sports, which will start on August 15. At last It has been officially announced the platforms that will broadcast the matches, coinciding with The announcement of the calendar of the first day. The truth is that things are still quite similar to the previous season, since the issuance rights were auctioned in 2021and the issuance rights of the two operators who won the bid still remain for this and for next season. What operators issue the matches The retransmission of the next season of LaLiga EA Sports will be in charge of Movistar Plus+ and Daznthrough its official Laliga TV channels. Orange TV will also broadcast The matches, since confirmed in x There will be no changes in next season, maintaining their commitment to broadcast all football. If you want to see LaLiga with Movistar Plus+, You have two options: The package LaLiga with a price of € 35/month or the All football For a price of € 49/month, in both cases including LaLiga Hypermotion, only in which you also have European competitions. This price You have to add it to the subscription of Movistar Plus+for which you do not need to be a telephone operator customer. If you want to see LaLiga with Daznyou can hire Your subscription of football for 10 euros per month in its promotional price, or 20 in the normal. Here, You will only see 5 LaLiga games in 35 of the 38 days and one in open. It also has a separate subscription for LaLiga Hypermotion. As for the businesses of the Horeca sector such as bars, hotels and restaurants, the First Division matches will be in The LaLiga Tv Bar channelwhich can be seen in Movistar Plus +, Orange TV, Agile TV (Television of the Másmóvil Group) and Avatel, as well as on the BAR TV and +Sport TV platforms. In Xataka Basics | Free football on DTT: all the channels offered by the first division of LaLiga EA Sports this season

LaLiga IP blocks threaten next season. So Cloudflare has presented an appeal in the Constitutional

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

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

It seemed that LaLiga could not be further blocking domains. Until it touched the festivities of the City of Madrid

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The weekend has been starring two old known faces: LaLiga matches and blockages associated with them. Domains such as the Social Network X (T.com), Vercel Web addresses and even services related to the Madrid City Council were affected without an additional solution to navigate by VPN. The Madrid City Council is no longer fought. A direction that little suspicious seemed to be related to the illegal broadcast of football matches, Statics.sanisidromadrid.comwas blocked on Saturday, May 10. Reason? Blocking in compliance in the judgment of December 18, 2024 by the Commercial Court N6, a message that we know firsthand. The address belongs to the Madrid City Council, and is nothing more than the showcase for the San Isidro festivities held between May 9 and 15. The website of the City of Reus (Reus.es), was also inaccessible during that Saturday X and Redsys. The website of the San Isidro Festivities program was not the only Rocambolesco case. The social network itself X It was inaccessible during the game hoursas well as some domains related to Operations resolved by Redsys. The latter may end up affecting web payments (not receiving confirmation of an order, erroneous notifications related to payment, etc.) in which the operation does not finish registering correctly when the URL is blocked. The Vercel case. LaLiga found Vercel The best way to beat Cloudflare. A paradigmatic case in which Malte Ubl, Cto de Vercel, published an article on his blog criticizing IP blocks… to update it three days later ensuring that “we are working closely with LaLiga to quickly eliminate the illegal streaming contents.” 🇪🇸🚫 Update on LaLiga’s Blocks. We’ve Been Working with their team to get a interrupted access in Spain to the @sercel Global CDN. Vercel have set up a dedicated inbox for LaLiga to File Reports. Sadly, The Just Blocked Another Vercel CDN IP Without Using This Mechanism. To … https://t.co/31gy5b8u0k – Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) May 11, 2025 Not even allying with LaLiga has been enough. During this weekend numerous Vercel web directions have been blocked, with its CEO making its position new public about what a football organization should and should not be able to do. Far from finishing. LaLiga blocks They are going to moreand there is no reasons to think that the situation can be reversed. He Domino effect is increasingand while Justice endorses The random blockages will continue to be produced. Cloudflare described them as “clumsy and ineffective”at open war with the organization. Despite the evidence that the affected domains are not related to illegal practices, this problem will continue to generalize by service providers. More than 15,000 affected domains. There are lists which already register more than 15,000 URLs affected by LaLiga domains in networks such as Digi. A look at it makes it clear that, in its vast majority, blockades are not related to websites that broadcast emissions illegally. Faced with a reality inevitablethe LaLiga blocks do Pay fair for sinnersaffecting Business Billingto The daily life on the weekend and with the use of VPN As the only temporary patch. In Xataka | LaLiga redouble her offensive against illegal football streaming: Twitch and other greats just joined her crusade

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

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