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LaLiga has found the best way to beat Cloudflare: ally with its competition

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LaLiga carries months at war with Cloudflare. Avoid the illegal emissions From soccer matches via services IPTV has led LaLiga to launch the controversial and criticized IPS indiscriminate blocks series. In that battle, however, LaLiga has ended up launching an unique offensive. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. What LaLiga has done is basically ally with several of Cloudflare competitorsthat have become entities that do present to specifically block domains that are violating the audiovisual rights that they try to protect LaLiga. Vercel, the great prominent. The case of Vercel is paradigmatic. On April 15, in full IPS block fever, the CTO de Vercel, Malte UBL, He published an article In the official blog of the company criticizing the IPS blockages that had also affected their customers. “Users in Spain now face indiscriminate internet block with legitimate websites ceasing to be accessible due to their association with shared IP addresses (…) What began as a measure against piracy has become an irresponsible form of censorship on the Internet.” Where I said I say Diego. That criticism in the blog was accompanied by A message in x of the company’s CEO, Guillermo Rauch, who confirmed how those blockages were already affecting their customers. Three days later the blog article was updated with a singular note: “We are working closely with LaLiga to quickly eliminate the illegal streaming contents.” The blockages were indiscriminate. What we have lived these months has sudo a constant indiscriminate block of IPS that made not only access to illegal broadcasts of football matches, but also thousands of legitimate websites, including companies that companies that They are suffering economic and reputational damage. One of the key questions was if selective and specific blockages could be made. The answer seems to be totally affirmative. But it may not be (if you are not in cloudflare). In LaLiga’s press release, a phrase stood out especially. In it those responsible for LaLiga explained that “collaboration prevents dynamic IPS blockages from being carried out may affect third parties“. That means that theoretically in Vercel, Akamai or CDN77 will be able to make these selective blockages and prohibit access only to domains that infringe Adiovisual rights, and not to all others who share IP with the offending domain. The question is, of course, how they do it. No technical details. We have contacted LaLiga, which did not have the technical details. We have also tried to contact Vercel to try to know how they perform that filtering, but for now we have not obtained an answer. A priori that selective block is feasible, but companies such as Cloudflare defend that they protect the privacy of their customers Thanks to technologies like ECH. Some collaborate in blockages, others do not. That extension of the TLS protocol The name of the domain masks and makes it basically impossible for the operators to know which concrete website the user is accessing when asking for an IP. In Cloudflare and Vercel (for example) the same IP is shared between hundreds or thousands of domains, but while Cloudflare does not collaborate with LaLiga when specifically blocking those domains, Vercel and others do seem that they will begin to do it according to Laliga’s press release. Another setback for cloudflare. This DNS, CDN and Proxy inverse provider has become a valuable ally for thousands of companies worldwide, but His obsession with protecting privacy of his clients he is putting in trouble. French justice – which already acted Against her, Cisco and Google Recently in its fight against piracy – it has recently forced it to Block illegal MotoGP retransmissions. That now its competitors reach agreements with LaLiga raises new difficulties. It is the application of a simple philosophy. Divide and win. With this tactic, LaLiga converts to Vercel, Akamai or CDN77 – in addition to other entities – in “collaborationists” of its cause, leaving cloudflare more and more alone. That can cause a domino effect: if users and companies confirm that “if we use Cloudflare we have problems with the blockages, but if we use Vercel, there can be no potential migration of those users and companies to the services of Cloudflare competitors. But. After these agreements there are still economic interests, and those users and companies end up sacrificing the protection of privacy offered by Cloudflare and other companies to avoid being harmed economic, reputationally or functionally. The problem with this sacrifice is that now the requested blockages are theoretically to protect illegal soccer broadcasts, but a probable threat arises. BLOCKS WITHOUT JUDICIAL GUARDIAN. As Román Ramírez explained (@patowc), cybersecurity expert and creator of Rootedconthis fulfilled in the legal battle against LaLiga. According to him, this “is a way of pressing and extorting.” If LaLiga achieves that collaboration, he adds, the entity has direct access to these suppliers to “cut whatever you want. It is easy to imagine that instead of being an IPTV it is a critical website with Thebes. Without judicial protection and without democratic control.” Image | Tourettes In Xataka | We have been in LaLiga IPS for three months. 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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 in her hand to prevent people from stopping seeing illegal IPTV. You just have to imitate Netflix

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The nightmare of IPS blocks by LaLiga continues. Not only that: it seems to increase. Soccer is becoming a problem For Internet users in our country, and are (we are) paying fair for sinners. Why is this happening? This is what we try to find out analyzing one of the potential root problems – the cost of seeing football – and stating those prices with what has happened on other streaming platforms. Why what works for Netflix or Spotify does not do so for football? Let’s see it. How much does football cost in Spain and Europe Today in Spain football fans depend on telephone operators to enjoy these broadcasts. If the objective is to be able to access all the First Division Soccer matches of LaLiga and those of competitions such as the Champions League, The options are two: Movistar+ and Orange. They told it a few months ago Our mobile Xataka companionswhich explained what were the disputes available plans, in which fiber, mobile and television are always combined in different versions. In those two cases Prices start from 115 euros per month of Movistar or the 80.95 euros per month of Orange (although without mobile data). O2 and Jazztel also offer some games, but much more limited: each day we have access to a LaLiga EA Sports (First Division) match, a Champions League match (if celebrated day) and three games of LaLiga Hypermotion (Second Division). That exclusivity of Movistar and Orange, however, They could change: Yoigo and Masmoble plan a television service with Orange TV infrastructure and in which 90 channels and all football will be included. At the moment there are no prices or defined availability date for this project. And in Europe? Other European countries have different costs, but it is important here to emphasize that the prices we will talk about are access to football without further ad I would go apart. Thus, we have: France: Dazn has a package to see all the link 1 for 35 euros per month (25 euros/month if you are under 26 years). Canal+ has a plan that also includes European competitions and costs 29.99 euros per month. Germany: In Dazn Unlimited All Bundesliga and Champions League matches for 34.99 euros per month are available. There are some optional platforms such as Sky with similar prices. Italy: DAZN offers all the A series A for 30 euros per month, while they can see the Champions League, it must be combined with Sky Italy, which has a cost of 25 euros per month. The total cost is therefore 55 euros per month. England: Sky Sports has all the rights to convey the matches, and the package costs about 22 pounds per month (26 euros/month). BT Sport broadcasts the Champions League, and the cost in that case is 25 euros per month, so the combined cost is about 51 euros per month. What is also true is that these amounts and these plans vary constantly and both operators and platforms offer constant promotions in order to capture more users. When Netflix taught us the way There was a time when music downloads or films on P2P networks were especially popular. That was cumbersome and illegal, but there were not many more options either. Or none. This was what was seen in Netflix in 2015, when he arrived in Spain. Everything would change with the arrival of Netflix, Spotify and its competitors, who showed that we could have streaming services of fantastic content, accessible, with a great catalog and with a more than reasonable price. Suddenly I was no longer compensated to be looking for other places: The legal alternative was really remarkable. The subscription model settled and became the norm, and thanks to a good balance, content companies realized something striking: the best way to fight illegal content was to offer a good service at an acceptable price. This principle has been corrupted in recent years: Servcios like Netflix have Uploaded prices Notably, they have stopped allowing Share accounts And they have also put ads, Like all its competitors. Users can protest (we protest), but time has proved those responsible for these services, who have not stopped growing and They are in record figures. How have things come out to Netflix? We can see it in two quite representative graphics of the situation. Since 2012, when the service began to be available in the US (arrived in Spain Something later), Netflix was raising prices more and more frequent. With each climb protests, yes, but … Sooner or later most return. Netflix price evolution in the US. These changes have been analogous in the rest of the world, and Spain is no exception. Source: The Verge. In fact, growth in users is apparently unstoppable in Netflix. The plan with advertisements, which we can criticize so much, It has been a resounding success And today more than half of the new subscribers arrive at the service thanks to this plan. Evolution of Netflix subscribers globally from 2011 to 2024. Source: Business of Apps. At present, the platform has More than 300 million subscriberswhen a decade ago The figure was five times lower (62.71, According to Business of Apps). There have been hardly two semester throughout its history in which there had The shared accounts or the plan with ads. That seems to make it clear that despite everything to millions of users They are still compensated by paying those subscriptions And not to go to illegal content distribution services, so if it works for them, what is happening with football in Spain? The Netflix of Sports Today the standard plan with Netflix ads costs 7 euros per month. Not bad, especially considering what football costs. Even considering the cost of the most affordable plans to see all football in Spain (with many asterisks, about 29 euros in Orange), the price both here and in other countries in Europe seems elevated. Seeing football in Spain costs about 30 euros a month with Orange … Read more

How to claim if you are seeing yourself affected by indiscriminate laliga blockages

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Let’s explain How to claim if LaLiga blocks affect youthose that the football entity is doing indiscriminately in Spain. It is a practice with which in the days of the party is blocked access to services such as Cloudflare, causing hundreds of perfectly legal websites to stop working. Unfortunately, as a user there is not much that you can do against these exaggerated and unfair measures imposed by LaLiga. We have told you some ways to avoid blocking, but little else you can do. However, Yes, you can report it to the European Commissionsince the blockade violates basic principles of user rights on the Internet. These indiscriminate blockages to services that have nothing to do with emissions that pursue violate rights such as network neutrality, equitable access to digital services and freedom of information and company. And you can report that with the media that Europe gives you to do it. This complaint will not solve anything, but If enough people have complaints basedthe European Commission will open an investigation and ask for explanations to the Government of Spain. And to report it you don’t need a lawyer, just fill out a questionnaire. How to report it to the European Commission The first thing you have to do is enter the website of complaints of the European Commissionin which you can send a claim to the entity. To do this, go to EC.Europa.eu/law/application-eu-law/report-braach/es/check-your-criteriaand click on the button Submit a complaint. When you choose Submit a complaintyou will show you a form with several options that you have to choose. In it, you have to mark that the complaint is presented in relation to a national EU authority, and that it is an incorrect application of EU’s right. In the end, you will have to choose the option of Communicate alleged infractions of competition standardsclicking In the link that offers you. This will take you to a page where you are told how to proceed. First you have to go to this page, where below there is a fairly long document that you can see in Spanish HERE. On this page, go down and Look where it puts Exhibitsince it is where you explain how to proceed and all the information you must present To be able to make the complaint. Then you will have to send an email to the address Comp-Market-information@ec.europa.euindicating everything the annex tells you. You will have to put your personal data, the national authority involved, from the corresponding ministry to the Internet provider. You must also include a detailed description of the factssaying how the massive block of IP addresses affects the legitimate pages you use. You must also cite the regulations that you consider to violate this way of proceeding: Regulation 2022/612, articles on network neutrality and access without internet discrimination. When you finish, attach screenshots, affected IP addresses or communications that you have made with your supplier (if you don’t have them, first talk to your Internet operator to tell you why they block the pages, and then attach it). And when you finish reviewing everything, then send the complaint. In Xataka Basics | Avoid the laliga block to cloudflare: how to continue sailing if the block is repeated

The collateral effects of LaLiga blockages in thousands of users

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Soccer Week, Blocking Week. With the support of a judicial sentenceLaLiga has power to ask the operators to Block certain IP addresses. The problem of killing flies to guns is that these blockages do not affect only the domains related to the retransmissions that LaLiga considers illegal: companies and individuals that have little or nothing to do with football are being affected. Visiting a website is not available is a draft problem, even more so if the address you need to access is necessary to work. Movistar and O2 They are at the head of criticism, but even “small” operators like Digi They have been intensifying the blockages for months. From Xataka spoken with affected and compiled several of the testimonies that flood both social networks and forums. The problem is common and easy to replicate: football day, problem day. Why indiscriminate blockages At first glance, it clashes that the order of an operator to block a unique IP address, supposedly to issue illegal content, can leave dozens of websites inaccessible that they have no relation to her. Although it seems illogical, this effect is a direct consequence of how an important part of the Internet infrastructure works. A habitual (and economic) practice in web accommodation is shared hosting, where multiple sites operate from a single server and share a single IP address. This configuration causes an unwanted collateral effect: as the blockade applies to the complete direction, it cannot differentiate individual sites. Thus, if a website with supposedly illegal football streaming shares the IP with the website you use to work, both will be blocked if the operator is given the order. It is the reason why a fall or blockade in a CDN (Content delivery network) as Cloudflare either Vercel It ends up causing dozens of websites to cease to be accessible. If the service provider blocks an address, those that share it fall as dominoes. How it is affecting users There are several more than known websites to which users They are not being able to access certain websites during the game days. In the closest cases, Xataka companions have suffered problems to access platforms such as Bluesky from the average in specific cases. Always on the weekend (coinciding with the game days). In some cases, the service provider clarifies that we cannot access a certain website by the judicial block. In others, simply do not load the page It is the same case as a server, which a few weeks ago suffered several problems to enter forocoches (where there are already numerous threads reporting difficulties to access the forum). The tonic was exactly the same. In the hours before the party, access to this address was blocked. It was not until the hours after the meeting when it could be accessed normally, both from mobile data and from WiFi. This is a relatively lower problem. Gravity increases when the user cannot access their web platforms necessary to work. This is the case of Álex Jiménez, a journalist of the Local section of Córdoba in eldiario.es. “In my case I am a Digi user. The blockade is simple: at the time the weekend arrives and LaLiga’s games, Besocy’s website stops loading, showing the message I shared in the publication. I have tried to use other devices such as my personal phone or the tablet, both for wifi and by mobile network, and the blockade continues to exist. Normally it stops working both Saturday and Sunday. There is no margin of doubt: the message you see when trying to access Besocya platform that provides media tools, is that “this IP address has been blocked in compliance with the provisions of the judgment of December 18, 2024”. Even more concrete is the case of Rodrigo, who has a Homelab At home to house some of your websites. During the hours before the matches, in some cases from noon, Cloudflare begins to cut the tap. “I use Digi, in my case I have hired the 10GB because I give it enough use since I have a homelab at home and I lodge enough services for the public too. I am happy in that aspect, speed, stability and support. Until the day D arrived, when I see that I cannot access one of my webs Being failing. And indeed, with a VPN, in my case I use protonvpn, connecting even to a server in Spain, everything worked magically, it was to disconnect the VPN and nothing was loaded. Since then I began to monitor all the cloudflare IP’s, at least those that assign me, by region or the plan that I have hired with them. And as a clock, every time there would be football, Cloudflare fell and the second my websites. Rodrigo’s case is one of the most visual, since he has shared with us the hours in which Cloudflare begins to give problems: they coincide with the meeting days and begin to “revive” when the game ends. Fall in the days that there is a game, during the previous hours and its celebration and with return to normal after its completion. This is the blockade that, indiscriminately, are applying operators under court order. What can I do as affected LaLiga blocks are protected by a judicial sentence, one that Rootedcon He wants to lie down after collecting data and testimonies of users and companies that are suffering the blockages in legitimate web addresses. He has been trying to propose nullity incident since February. For now, This is a legal practice (although with serious doubts around and with several demands against him) and we cannot prevent in any way that the operator is given to carry out the blockade. Despite this, we can put some practices into play to try to overcome these blockages. Use VPN: In Xataka We have detailed How to avoid the lalaiga block to cloudflare using VPN. This is the easiest way to skip the restriction since, to perform the blockade the operator not only … Read more

LaLiga IP blocks are bleeding many companies

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Indiscriminate blockages of IPS ordered by LaLiga They are wreaking havoc on the Internet. It is no longer just that Millions of users They cannot access thousands of websites: there is companies that are losing income for advertising or for sales. From Xataka we have contacted some of those companies to learn first -hand what is the impact they are Noting in your business. These days it has been launched A list of affected in which some companies try to estimate economic losses, although as we will see in the following testimonies, measuring this impact is really complicated. Of 70,000 euros of monthly income to 40,000 There are some more clear cases in that regard. It is for example what happens with Onlytenis.coma sporting store that operates in various countries but that for example in Spain specializes in tennis and paddle items. María José ValueCommerce Manager in the company, explained how for a long time they make use of a cloudflare payment plan, but not even that serves the blockades: “On weekends it is crazy”, because they clearly notice how both the activity in their store and sales. In fact he explains, they have compared the income of the months without IPS blockades and the recent months, which have. “Before we entered 70,000 euros a month, this month They have become 40,000 or 50,000 euros“ However, he explained, for the company “it is very difficult to demonstrate” and relate that decrease in income to LaLiga IPS blockages. For her there is no other explanation than these technical blockages, and he knows that at some point in the payment process there is a problem. “At first it affected more,” he says, “and now it seems that less, but if a client arrives and the web carries it but cannot do Checkout, he goes to another platform.” The problems also extend to online advertising that they also have: for months they never had a problem, but the blockages and football are causing that part to be affected, although It is very difficult to evaluate the impact. The search engine they use in your store stops working totally or partially, she tells us, and the cycle is always the same with these problems. “They last all weekend, and on Monday the orders begin to activate.” For onlyten the impact is being direct and very negative, because as it explains value, “we had a growth trend of 20% and now everything has stagnated, this does not go 100%.” It shows other desperate with the situation, because it does not have solutions or resources to go to: “We cannot deactivate cloudflare, the remedy is worse than the disease“ That’s: the services of this CDNS provider avoid for example denial attacks, and disable these services can end up being a significant cybersecurity problem. Getting rid of cloudflare is not the solution José Ángel Martínez He is the founder of Ninjalabs —What gives WordPress support services or SEO audits – and administrator of Generationxboxand has seen impact on both businesses. In the first case, he tells us, those affected are the clients they manage and who make use of Cloudflare. With the second, your community for Xbox users, it does estimate that the losses are about 800 euros per weekend due to blockages. As was the case with Onlytenis, in the case of online stores those customers see how every time there is their websites are blocked at some point. “Our agency manages some online stores and When the blockages are produced, they cut the payment catwalk“He explains. It is a serious problem, because as it explains, in those shops sales are made but they are not registered: When the client goes to pay, normally the payment platforms for security lead you to their platform, for example Redsys. With these blockages the customer arrives, pays and believes that the purchase has made, but this is not registered in the store because the catwalk that has to return to the online trade does not inject the transaction data. In fact, he explains, that causes the client to believe that everything has gone well, but that trade does not know anything. “There are customers who are claiming requests from March”, and that is when online stores have to investigate and compare data to know who made what requests not registered and be able to complete the process normally, which is especially cumbersome and delicate. The solution in some of the services they manage is to directly remove cloudflare. “With some we tried the payment plan but even with that they are saved from the blockages,” so they ended up taking it away. By removing cloudflare the exhibition as we said is greater, but from Ninjalabs they mitigate problems with various rules. Even so, these clients notice other problems: their servers then consume many more resources, because they have to request bots that arrive from everywhere and that would normally be stopped by the Cloudflare service. Suddenly infrastructure needs rise, and on top of the attempts to manage bots can end up blocking legitimate traffic. A true nightmare, Martínez explains. “It is more a matter of image and helplessness” Htcmanía It is a well -known mobile users forum that has also been affected by these indiscriminate IPS blockages. Its creator and owner confirmed it, Jorge Burruecowhich told us that “both the payment service and the free cloudflare has given us problems” because “they have ended up blocking all the IPS” that uses its platform. Even so, he explains, the blockages are irregular. “It does not always happen in all the big games. I do not know if it is random or forget, but for example on Saturday there were no blockages on my page. Yes on Sunday,” he explains. Burrueco adds that his exposure is relative, but sensitive: “As you know, it only affects Movistar, Digi fiber connections, and some more operator. Taking into account that the percentage of users who enter HTCMania must be around 65%, that remaining … Read more

Constant Internet blockages by LaLiga

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Today, there is LaLiga First Division game. There is also Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Friday no (there is second division), and the weekend, of course, there is both Saturday (the classic, end of the Copa del Rey) and Sunday. That will have a more than likely consequence: indiscriminate blockages of IPS Almost all week. Or all. The situation does not change. The indiscriminate blockages of LaLiga IPS continue. One weekend after another legitimate companies and users are suffering the collateral effects of these measures, which try to combat illegal soccer broadcasts through IPTV services. Today, there is a game of day 32, and tomorrow the 33rd day begins. There are matches every day of the week (Copa del Rey on Saturday, day 34 Sunday). Source: LaLiga. From Cloudflare to Vercel. The cuts have especially affected Cloudflare, a gigantic CDN that makes use of IPS that shares thousands of websites, and all of them are affected by these IPS blockages. In recent days we have seen how other similar suppliers have also been affected, and Vercel is the clearest example. Vercel against LaLiga. Guillermo Rauch, Ceo de Vercel, indicated last week How your company had been affected by these IPS blockades: Spain is censoring the Internet by blocking the IPS of the CDN of @sercel, which is the entrance door of millions of applications and websites. We are working hard to mitigate the problem and restore freedom of expression as much as possible, since they are not very communicative, reserved and are not intimidated by user complaints. “They have blocked us without further ado”. The chief engineer of this company, Matheus Fernandes, explained how the blocking process It had been confusing – “They have blocked us without more telling us why” explained in x– And he had affected legitimate companies again. Meanwhile, Javi Velasco, another company engineer. He tried to clarify How communication with LaLiga had been strange. What LaLiga says. Our mobile Xataka companions They received a series of communications of LaLiga in which they said the following: LaLiga detected a very important pirate broadcast brand with streaming website, which also offered IPTV services, hosted in Vercel. From LaLiga a notification was sent to said company to be deactivated. However, this request was not processed until 24 hours later. With the Vercel company, LaLiga has followed the same process as with any other company where pirate soccer broadcasts are housed. Numerous contact requests that have not been attended have been sent and then working with the Internet service providers, the IPS blockade has been requested where illegal content retransmission has been detected. LaLiga summons any technological company, whose infrastructure is used by cybercriminals to perform illegal retransmissions, to get in touch to reach a collaboration agreement. In the end this gets worse. Which is passing between LaLiga and Vercel —The versions of both parties do not block – it is a replica of what has already happened with Cloudflare. Be that as it may, that fight of LaLiga against those emissions that violate intellectual property are affecting many users. They continue to pay fair for sinners. Blockades that do not end when the games end. These blockages, which should not exist in this indiscriminate format, also last much more than they last from the parties. As Velasco explainedthey received a first report from LaLiga on April 12 and requested more data – often there are reports of illegal websites that are not real – but LaLiga did not answer. Instead, their IPS were blocked without more. The two Vercel IPS remained blocked for days even though matches were no longer issued. Quic.cloud is in the same. Another CDN provider called Quic.cloud has also been affected by the blockages and is in the same situation as Cloudflare and Vercel. On your website have published a statement indicating that “we have tried to contact LaLiga to be able to discuss the situation, but we have not been successful.” This week will be problematic. All these blockages that already affect other CDN service providers seem to indicate that LaLiga measures are not less, but more. That all this week there are broadcasts of First Division football matches propose continuous blockages again, which can make thousands of websites again inaccessible and that many users cannot access them. #Laligagate. Protests for all these problems They are starting to get together in a hashtag In social networks, #laligagate. Ofelia Tejerina, president of the Association of Internet users, recommended those affected by LaLiga blockages to aim the affected domain To this listwhich also shows an estimate of laliga losses. Image | LaLiga In Xataka | Rootedcon is willing to reach the Constitutional if he has to do it: “LaLiga has hacked the law” with IPS blocks

LaLiga breaks with mediopro. Production passes to Telefónica and a Swiss giant who comes from retransmitting world

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LaLiga has closed the contest to renew its audiovisual production and has done so marking distances: Mediapro disappears after decades to the front, and enters strong HBS (Host Broadcast Services), which takes three of the five blocks offered. This Swiss company is the new person in charge of showing the world the first and second division matches during the next five seasons, which at least until 2027 will continue to be broadcast in Spain by Movistar and Dazn. This affects production. Why is it important. Production is no longer an addition, it is part of the product. In an industry that competes for global attention, how football looks is almost as important as the game itself. And LaLiga, which in this sense has been winning for years, wants to play in the same league as the Premier and the Champions. The backdrop. HBS is not new in this. It has been producing all soccer World Cups since 2002, and has worked in Champions, Eurocups and Olympic Games. His arrival in LaLiga is marked by the technical and quality approach to retransmissions, with a commitment to international standards and centralization of key services. In detail: HBS will be in charge of the production of LaLiga EA Sports and LaLiga Hypermotion (1st and 2nd division) parties, in addition to technical and centralized services. TSA (Telefónica Audiovisual Services) will deal with the contribution and distribution block, that is, to bring these signals to national and international operators. Mediapro is out of the scheme after years being the main supplier. Telefónica, which already distributes LaLiga and European competitions, reinforces its position as a sports technical infrastructure, in turn part of Its strategy of being less and less telecus and more technological. He is not the protagonist, but a key part of the ecosystem that holds the viewer’s experience. Yes, but. One of the five blocks has been deserted: the content creation. LaLiga reserves that space to integrate it with other contracts. Perhaps for wanting to have more control and flexibility about the narrative that surrounds its most valuable product. The big question. Why now? The change is part of a new stage for LaLiga: greater control, greater international projection And an answer to criticism – as those of Real Madrid– On the editorial approach of retransmissions. In fact, six years ago The White Club already broke with Midopro For these same criticisms. In Xataka | There are people paying $ 100 to see basketball matches in the cinema. The immersion is amazing Outstanding image | LaLiga

Justice rejects its demand against LaLiga for the mass blocking of websites

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The Spanish justice has dismissed the different nullity incidents filed independently by Cloudflare, Rootedcon and other plaintiffs against LaLiga, giving the reason to the organization chaired by Javier Tebas in their strategy to combat the illegal broadcasts of football matches. What has happened. The court has rejected The attempt to cancel the 2022 sentence which allows LaLiga to order the blockade of IP addresses through the operators. All the plaintiffs must assume the costs of the judicial process, without any possibility of any ordinary appeal. Why it is important. The decision reinforces LaLiga in its fight against illegal broadcasts, but maintains the controversy over The mass blocking of thousands of legitimate websites that share infrastructure with websites that illegally transmit football matches. The conflict broke out when Cloudflare implemented an encryption system (Ech) that prevents the operators from seeing the final destination of each connection. In response, LaLiga chose to directly block the cloudflare IPSaffecting thousands of websites without relation to illegal broadcasts. Between the lines. According to the judicial order, to which Xataka It has had access, the plaintiffs presented an incident with “probative orphanage” regarding the accreditation of the damages that allegedly caused the blocking measures. In the judge’s words, this means that “there are no damage caused by the execution of IPS addresses”, but “a measure that prevents access to pirate content.” Vodafone, one of the operators demanded and affected by these blockages, has formulated opposition to the nullity requested, as stated in the judicial order. This means that the operator aligns with LaLiga and considers blockages appropriate during party retransmissions. And now what? Rootedcon has announced in X that will resort to “to all necessary legal means” to reverse this situation, although the car specifies that there is no ordinary appeal. Meanwhile, LaLiga could intensify its blockage strategy, especially during party retransmissions. The plaintiffs included, in addition to Cloudflare and Rootedcon, A Vapasec Technology Consulting, Japonism travel content SC and Frontia SA, among others. Cloudflare says that in Spain there are about 160,000 web pages that use their services. Javier Tebas himself, president of LaLiga, downplay the problem by stating that “It only affects some geeks on the Internet“ The current situation. Affected users can resort to tools such as VPNS or the service Cloudflare Warp To avoid these blockages. This temporary solution, however, does not solve the background problem for business and professional services that can be compromised for their activity during the weekends. This case adds to other similar litigation in several European countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Portugal, where Cloudflare is also facing demands for rights holders For its privacy protection system that, according to its defenders, favors a safer Internet. In Xataka | After almost a decade with the Apple Watch I have spent a Garmin. And I have understood what I was losing me Outstanding image | Gregorio Cavana in Unspash

“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

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