🚨 LaLiga is Breaking Spain's Internet in the Name of "Anti-Piracy"
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.
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Real-time monitoring of LaLiga's IP blocks affecting Spanish internet users.
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🚨 LaLiga is Breaking Spain's Internet in the Name of "Anti-Piracy" \ stacker news ~tech
Spanish courts gave LaLiga carte blanche to block entire IP ranges during football matches, supposedly to fight streaming piracy. The result? Massi...