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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