--- title: Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites description: Spain's football league LALIGA, armed with court orders, has been blocking IP addresses to stop illegal match streams. An OONI study covering January–June 2026... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spain-s-laliga-blocks-knocked-out-500-000-websites-j5nsitdiz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites | daily.dev og:description: Spain's football league LALIGA, armed with court orders, has been blocking IP addresses to stop illegal match streams. An OONI study covering January–June 2026... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spain-s-laliga-blocks-knocked-out-500-000-websites-j5nsitdiz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J5nsiTDIZ.png og:image:alt: Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spain's LALIGA blocks knocked out 500,000+ websites **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Spain's football league LALIGA, armed with court orders, has been blocking IP addresses to stop illegal match streams. An OONI study covering January–June 2026 found the blocks took down over 500,000 legitimate domains — including Amnesty International and Greenpeace — as collateral damage. Blocking just 4–20 IP addresses on match days knocked out 400,000+ unrelated sites, with Cloudflare accounting for 90% of affected domains. More alarmingly, one operator (Digi Mobil) was found performing TLS man-in-the-middle interception, serving fake certificates and turning a piracy block into a privacy risk. Industry groups are now pushing for rightsholders to bear liability for collateral damage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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