[NANOG] Re: ISPs in Spain are blocking CDN IP ranges to tackle soccer piracy

[Marco Belmonte via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

One day Akamai and Cloudflare and the other "CDNs" who have contributed 
to the protection of criminals and been the greatest asset EVER to 
online organized crime - one day - and I don't know when - but they will 
be held responsible.

Marco

On 4/14/2025 1:30 PM, nanog--- via NANOG wrote:
> In this case the centralization normally serves to avoid blocking. You 
> don't turn off the entire Internet to block one site, but Spain has 
> decided to go nuclear and has decided that actually it's okay to block 
> the entire internet to block one site.
>
> When Italy did the same thing several months ago, they said it was by 
> mistake and reversed it (and then to save face, said there had been no 
> mistake and they had never blocked it at all).
>
>
> On 14/04/25 18:00, Constantine A. Murenin via NANOG wrote:
> > Here's an idea, why don't we centralise the entire internet behind a
> > single network to "solve" the issue of connectivity and availability?
> > Oh, wait!  Nevermind!  /s
> >
> > C.
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 at 10:20, Raúl Martínez via NANOG
> > <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > > Hello, Nanog,
> > >
> > > This is an ongoing issue that might affect your spanish users if you 
> > > use
> > > services like Cloudflare, Vercel, BunnyCDN or GitHub pages.
> > >
> > > A couple of weeks ago, the most important ISPs in Spain started
> > > intercepting or nullrouting IP addresses from this CDN providers.
> > >
> > > The reason is that a couple of local court orders allowed LA LIGA 
> > > (sports
> > > association responsible for administering the two professional football
> > > leagues in Spain) to provide ISPs with a list of IP addresses that host
> > > soccer piracy sites to be taken down in a short period of time, even 
> > > when
> > > the football match is taken place.
> > >
> > > The issue is that most of this piracy sites use Cloudflare and 
> > > others to
> > > protect themselves, so ISPs are nullrouting or intercepting IP 
> > > ranges that
> > > serve thousands of websites, including all Cloudflare Free customers 
> > > (but
> > > not limited to). For example, they blocked one IP address that served
> > > ChatGPT.
> > >
> > > These blockages are applied when the soccer matches are played and 
> > > they are
> > > turned off hours later.
> > >
> > > Cloudflare has already taken legal action against this, but the 
> > > issue is
> > > still ongoing.
> > >
> > > You can find more information about this issue on TorrentFreak (LaLiga
> > > Blocks Cloudflare Again, New Pirate IPTV Providers & Anything in The 
> > > Way),
> > > BandaanchaEU (bandaancha bloqueos del fútbol).
> > >
> > > *Regards,*
> > > *Raúl Martínez*
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