Although the controversy of the dynamic blockages commissioned by Laliga continues and Spanish Internet users continue to lose access to their websites and legal services, the organization works on a new system which, at least in theory, should avoid such situations.
It is obvious that Laliga was inspired by Piracy Shield, the automatic blocking system of the IP website in just 30 minutes established by the Italian government a year and a half ago. However, instead of calling on the Spanish government to implement something similar, Laliga has taken the private path and created what it calls its own “technological ecosystem”, a system that allows organization Order the blocking of retransmissions and services directly to the companies that house themwithout undergoing justice or demanding the authorization of the government.
The new blocking system created by Laliga has already managed to convince several technological companies, starting with CDN77 and Akamai technologies last April; And this week, it was announced that Twitch, Vercel, Scaleway and Gcore have joined the platform. These companies will now have to block the content requested by Laliga within an average period of only 15 minutes, once they have been informed by the owners of the rights.
The presence of Twitch on the list can be surprising for the Spanish reader – the free Android, taking into account that Twitch was blocked in Europe last week, leaving without access to live broadcasts live to millions of Spaniards. However, the sports organization said it had A “good relationship” with the Amazon service and an “exceptional collaboration”Something that did not prevent him from ordering the dynamic block of several IP addresses of the service which, according to Laliga, “diffused content”.
Another surprising statement is that Laliga assumes that the new type of blockade “This prevents dynamic IPS blockages which can affect third parties”. Let us recall that Laliga succeeded in convincing the judge of the Commercial Court n ° 6 of Barcelona that the dynamic blockade was not going to produce innocent collateral victims; The judge excluded the existence of “blind blockages” even after two resources presented by Cloudflare and Rootedcon who appealed.
Now, and once these calls have been released without the possibility of resources, Laliga publicly accepts that dynamic blockages “They can affect third parties” and this can cause “possible impacts” to customers Cloud services. In this context, Laliga presented this new “blocking” ecosystem which allows you to work directly with these Internet companies to avoid collateral victims in blockages.
Consequently, everything indicates that Laliga offers two alternatives to Internet companies: or suffers from dynamic blocks which can leave most of their customers, or agree to block the content in less than 15 minutes after an order from Laliga, opaque and without judicial supervision.
It is a strategy that succeeds, to judge by the number of companies that aim, although the largest is still: Cloudflare. The chief of the sector is in a war, both legal and words, with Laliga and for the moment it seems unlikely to add to the new blocking system, although it all depends on the question of whether the organization TheRS can maintain the pressure.
