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Rene Millman

Over 500,000 websites wrongly blocked in Spain as La Liga anti-piracy campaign backfires

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  • Spain's LaLiga anti-piracy blocks disrupted at least 554,507 legitimate domains between January and June 2026, OONI reveals
  • Blocking just 4 to 20 IP addresses during a one-hour match window knocked out over 400,000 unrelated websites
  • Researchers also uncovered alarming TLS Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) interception tactics on one Spanish ISP

Football fans in Spain aren't the only ones feeling the impact of LaLiga's aggressive war on illegal streaming. A staggering new report shows that the league's court-authorized anti-piracy campaign has accidentally disrupted access to more than 500,000 legitimate websites, taking down everything from human rights platforms to vital cloud infrastructure.

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