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🚨 LaLiga is Breaking Spain's Internet in the Name of "Anti-Piracy"hayahora.futbol/
31 sats \ 5 comments \ @m0wer 23 Sep tech
Spanish courts gave LaLiga carte blanche to block entire IP ranges during football matches, supposedly to fight streaming piracy. The result? Massive collateral damage - legitimate businesses, government sites (including Spain's Royal Academy), research centers, and even football clubs' own websites get blocked.
LaLiga blocks around 3,000 IP addresses every weekend, using a sledgehammer approach that takes down CDN nodes hosting both illegal streams AND perfectly legal content. Despite 26+ million takedown notices in H1 2025, only 11% of flagged streams actually go offline.
The site hayahora.futbol lets you check if your domain is caught in LaLiga's overly broad net. This isn't about "four geeks" - it's about fundamental internet infrastructure being weaponized by a sports league with zero accountability.
For example https://web.esphome.io is currently blocked...
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27 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Sep
That's a classic government move, they try to fix one problem and just end up creating more. Don't the people advising them tell them how easy it is to get around this?
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @m0wer OP 23 Sep
It's easy to get around of course. But it's annoying.
I don't care about football, I don't care about copyright, yet from time to time I need to wonder if there's a match causing a website not to load or if it's something else.
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28 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Sep
The affected websites should take them to court. If this was in the States, they'd have been sued already.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @m0wer OP 24 Sep
They did, and it was dissmissed: https://www.xataka.com/empresas-y-economia/duro-reves-para-cloudflare-justicia-rechaza-su-demanda-laliga-bloqueo-masivo-webs
The summary is that according to LaLiga, Cloudflare is helping the distribution of football through unofficial sites by hiding them behind their IPs: https://www.laliga.com/noticias/nota-informativa-en-relacion-con-el-bloqueo-de-ips-durante-las-ultimas-jornadas-de-laliga-ea-sports-vinculadas-a-las-practicas-ilegales-de-cloudflare
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 24 Sep
Fucking Fuckers
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