Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

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Post by akyuu » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
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Post by pulimento » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

hope that doesn't end on "monitoring the situation" and doing nothing. entire cloudflare IP blocks are being blocked, even on work days

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

An IT peon at La Liga has the chance to do the funniest thing …

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Post by pier25 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

Finally. The situation is ridiculous and afaik it really didn't do anything to solve the piracy problem.

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Post by sparrish » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

Play stupid games... win stupid prizes.

The judicial, nation-wide blocks on CDN IPs is absurd and should have never been allowed.

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Post by pfortuny » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

sparrish wrote: post #5

Play stupid games... win stupid prizes. The judicial, nation-wide blocks on CDN IPs is absurd and should have never been allowed.

That shows the power of the Spanish FA and Telefonica together.

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Post by e1g » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

pulimento wrote: post #2

hope that doesn't end on "monitoring the situation" and doing nothing. entire cloudflare IP blocks are being blocked, even on work days

We actually had to revert our rollout of CF Workers because enough of our users were in Spain and couldn’t access endpoints at seemingly arbitrary times (due to the matches)

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Post by superjose » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #4

Finally. The situation is ridiculous and afaik it really didn't do anything to solve the piracy problem.

1000% I got legit Cloudflare Workers Anycast IPs that I was using for websockets blocked.

I also got blocked from using RustDesk.

It's been crazy. As this happens intermittently. I had to set up a tailscale exit node in one of my servers to circumvent this crap. I lost several days and called Vodafone (ISP) to understand what was going on.

That's when I read Reddit and saw that crap.

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Post by officialchicken » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

Great, this means Telefonica reliability goes from zero nines to still below zero nines.

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Post by matteason » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

Context: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches

https://cybernews.com/news/spain-laliga-streaming-piracy-cam...