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Repeating Failure: How Spanish Overblocking Ignores the Lessons of Italy’s Broken Piracy Shield 

Since early 2025, LaLiga (Spain’s top-tier football league) has been operating an aggressive and largely unchecked IP-address blocking regime in an attempt to tackle sports piracy. In 2024, LaLiga and several Spanish internet service providers, some of whom have direct commercial interests in LaLiga broadcasting, sought a court order authorising the blocking of specific domain names. 

· May 12, 2026

Security at Risk: How Today’s DMA Enforcement Risks Leaving Europeans Vulnerable to Spam and Scams 

This May marks three years since the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force. While the DMA was supposed to promote ‘contestability’ and ‘fairness’ in digital markets by curbing so-called ‘gatekeeper’ companies, a troubling gap is emerging between regulatory theory and how the European Commission’s enforcement of the DMA is affecting internet users in practice. 

· April 20, 2026

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