Over 500,000 websites wrongly blocked in Spain as La Liga anti-piracy campaign backfires
- 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.
According to a June 2026 report published by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), Spain's IP-based blocking campaign caused widespread collateral damage between January and June 2026.
The nonprofit organization, which specializes in measuring global internet censorship, found that at least 5.8% of the 9.2 million most popular internet domains were...
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