Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dwedge » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

noIdeaTheSecond wrote: post #14

I understand organizations as LaLiga wanting more money but massive IP blockage seems quite unfair, effective maybe but unfair so this news does not come as a surprise.

It's been going on for a while, but a couple of weeks ago they announced it would be expanded to other sports, that's probably why

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

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Post by estebank » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

e1g wrote: post #7

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)

Your customers should be proper Spaniards and be watching the match, hence not noticing the downtime! /s

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

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

e1g wrote: post #7

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)

They are only seemingly arbitrary to people that are not actually paying attention. Now that people are, the blocks are known in advance to those that look at a the schedule. Sure, it sucks to have to build this into your own schedule, but that's better than it happening "unexpectedly". You could do something crazy like import these times into your own calendar with reminders.

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

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

estebank wrote: post #22

e1g wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Your customers should be proper Spaniards and be watching the match, hence not noticing the downtime! /s

Your answer is better than mine

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

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

I'm interested in how those conversations went between the LaLiga and Cloudflare that convinced them to do this. I know I'm not Cloudflare, but if a company (any company) came to me demanding blocking IP ranges according the their schedule that would require a bunch of work on my end to make it happen, there's going to be a lot of push back. It'd take a dump truck load of money to make that happen.

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

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Post by alprado50 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

It is insane that you could block access to hundreds of sites just because some people decided to watch an ilegal stream.

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

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Post by DocTomoe » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

What you need is some form of - European - megacorp getting hurt by this and going after LaLiga for a ridiculously huge, LaLiga-destroying amount of money.

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

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Post by xp84 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #25

I'm interested in how those conversations went between the LaLiga and Cloudflare that convinced them to do this. I know I'm not Cloudflare, but if a company (any company) came to me demanding blocking IP ranges according the their schedule that would require a bunch of work on my end to make it happen, there's going to be a lot of push back. It'd take a dump truck load of money to make that happen.

I thought the government just forced their ISPs to block. Was CF involved at all?

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

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Post by dghlsakjg » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #25

I'm interested in how those conversations went between the LaLiga and Cloudflare that convinced them to do this. I know I'm not Cloudflare, but if a company (any company) came to me demanding blocking IP ranges according the their schedule that would require a bunch of work on my end to make it happen, there's going to be a lot of push back. It'd take a dump truck load of money to make that happen.

It wasn’t a conversation. It was a court order.

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

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Post by ACCount37 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:17 PM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #11

officialchicken wrote: post #9

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

Joining a select club that includes GitHub and Anthropic yay

Nah, those two have a proud one nine of reliability. It just feels like it must be less when you eat every single outage to your face.