Spain: Movistar, La Liga websites affected by piracy assault
March 4, 2025
From David Del Valle in Madrid
La Liga’s crackdown on pirate streaming platforms is an unwanted impact on Movistar Plus+ and several Spanish football teams’ websites that are facing outages preventing fans from accessing services and buying game tickets.
The websites of both Valencia and Girona football club experienced outages for several hours that in the latter case made it impossible for many to purchase tickets. Movistar’s streaming platform, Movistar Plus+, was also affected with subscribers receiving messages from the service indicating ‘Error 451’ and ‘Su conexión no es privada’ (meaning ‘your connection is not private’).
Many of the affected websites use Cloudflare, a provider of CDN services, whose IPs have been blocked by La Liga following its accusation of illegally streaming football matches. This blockade is causing many legal websites to experience outages every weekend, with many Spaniards now crying out against the “abusive” measure on the social networks, and even consumers association FACUA has stepped in asking for the practice to halt..
Cloudflare has appealed before the Spanish Court whereas La Liga, along with the operators Movistar, MasOrange and Digi, continue with the blocking.
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