LALIGA has successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from two platforms that were relaying coverage of top-flight Spanish football.
According to LALIGA, DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 were using technology provided by Cloudflare to conceal their identity. It says the domains were used as a digital shield to evade security controls. Together, the two platforms had more than 400,000 unique monthly users in Spain.
Multiple websites and their relays were disrupted.
A specialist team carried out the operation during Saturday’s football programme.
“The defence of intellectual property rights remains one of LALIGA’s priorities as it works together with the different telecommunications providers to identify and shut down illegal streaming platforms, thus safeguarding the integrity, financial sustainability, and primary revenue sources of football clubs and the sports industry as a whole,” the company said in a statement.
It continued: “Once again, LALIGA publicly condemns Cloudflare’s role in enabling piracy by knowingly protecting criminal organisations for profit.”
LA LIGA claims more than 50% of pirate IPs illegally distributing LALIGA content are protected by Cloudflare. “Despite multiple formal requests from LALIGA for Cloudflare to cease its collaboration with pirate sites, the company has refused to cooperate, instead continuing to profit from the criminal activity it helps to conceal.”
Broadband TV News has contacted Cloudfare for a response.
