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After obtaining a court order that granted permission to block pirate streaming services, top-tier football league LaLiga faced a dilemma.<\/p>\nAfter obtaining a court order that granted permission to block pirate streaming services, top-tier football league LaLiga faced a dilemma.<\/p>\n
Many of its targets were using Cloudflare\u2019s reverse proxy service, which in basic terms allows a webhost\u2019s IP address to remain private while one of Cloudflare\u2019s IP address is exposed to site users. Since hundreds of sites can share the same Cloudflare IP address, blocking one pirate site would end up blocking them all. <\/p>\n
Since no compromise could be reached with Cloudflare, LaLiga went ahead with its blocking campaign, which included blocking Cloudflare\u2019s shared IP addresses<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the blocking campaign began in earnest, complaints calling for the courts to take action to prevent collateral damage were rejected on various grounds. In June, the Mixed Parliamentary Group, at the request of N\u00e9stor Rego Candamil, the deputy of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), presented a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL)<\/a> in an attempt to build momentum.<\/p>\n The proposal explained the shared-IP address situation at Cloudflare and went on to describe what can go wrong on match day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe BNG believes the State Government must take action on this issue in response to the repeated blocking of thousands of websites. Failure to do so would constitute a dereliction of duty, leaving them in private hands, which act solely for their own benefit and, without regard, hand them over to third parties,\u201d the proposal continued. <\/p>\n A summary of the three main requests in the proposal:<\/p>\n 1. Blocking must be performed precisely, targeting domain names and DNS only Presented by the Mixed Group at the request of BNG, the proposal to ensure accurate, collateral damage-free blocking of exclusively pirate sites, received 6 votes in favor, 17 against, and 12 abstentions.<\/p>\n Despite the Socialist Group\u2019s (Grupo Socialista<\/em>) abstention, a representative said that the blocking measures comply with requirements, ensure that the clubs and broadcasters can protect their rights, and have safeguards to protect legitimate access to the internet for citizens and companies.<\/p>\n The Popular Party and Vox groups rejected the proposal outright, stating that it disregards the damage suffered by football clubs and therefore puts the economy in jeopardy.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Vox said the government doesn\u2019t get involved when matters are under the eye of the judiciary, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019re defending piracy.\u201d<\/p>\n The Economy, Trade and Digital Transformation Committee of Congress rejected the non-legislative proposal. In a statement Thursday, LaLiga described that as support for its anti-piracy strategy, including IP address blocking.<\/p>\n In line with comments made by the Popular Party and Vox groups, LaLiga also expressed concern that the proposal failed to address \u201cboth the critical impact of audiovisual fraud on the country\u2019s social and economic infrastructure and the origin of this issue, including the actors who profit from this illegal business.\u201d<\/p>\n LaLiga\u2019s statement makes no mention of the internet users the proposal aimed to protect. Instead, it restates its position that all blocking \u201cis proportional, targeted, and time-limited, being enforced only during matches\u2026.in strict compliance with the relevant court order.\u201d<\/p>\n LaLiga also had further sharp words for Cloudflare, mostly along the same lines as those made earlier in the year which appeared to mark the end of civil discussion, assuming that had ever been the case. There\u2019s clearly a huge difference of opinion in respect of how Cloudflare views its obligations and what LaLiga believes they should be. <\/p>\n At an event in Italy last week<\/a>, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Carrillo de Albornoz, Global Content Protection Manager at LaLiga, said that collaboration is the key to success and that partnerships with other companies are proving effective.<\/p>\n Mentioning no company in particular, he noted that \u201cNot all intermediaries are willing to cooperate,\u201d before revealing a new angle to LaLiga\u2019s strategy and a likely source of future friction. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to seek legal injunctions globally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n With a direct reference to European Union Regulation 2015\/2120<\/a>, de Albornoz said that ISPs can block \u2018certain types of traffic\u2019 in compliance with a court order.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have done so, and it\u2019s proven very effective. Collaboration is the key.\u201d <\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nCourts Unsympathetic, <\/h2>\n
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\n2. Establish protocols for hosts to shut down sites and\/or hand over operator details
\n3. Disallow IP address blocking to prevent blocking of innocent sites<\/em>.<\/p>\nProposal Put to the Vote on Wednesday<\/h2>\n
Proposal Rejected<\/h2>\n
Cloudflare Animosity Continues<\/h2>\n