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Category
Piracy
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.
At the beginning of this year, Italy put in place its national anti-piracy platform, the so-called ‘Piracy Shield’. While the overall aim is to protect intellectual property rights and reduce the spread of pirated content online, particularly in the case of live streams, in practice the Piracy Shield constitutes the perfect example of what to avoid when setting up rules that allow for the blocking of content on the internet.
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