A Madrid investigating court has summoned the chief executive of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, to appear on April 7th as part of criminal proceedings linked to an alleged failure to cooperate in the fight against football piracy. Investigating Court Number 50 of Madrid has admitted a joint complaint lodged by LaLiga and Movistar Plus+, in which […]
Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has acquired Human Native, an AI data marketplace that connects creators and AI developers. Cloudflare says the acquisition will make it easier for AI developers to discover and access the content they need, and in turn help creators and publishers optimise how their data can be surfaced to AI companies […]
Javier Tebas, president of Spain’s La Liga, has criticised Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince, accusing him of becoming the “Narco Maduro of the Internet” in an escalating dispute over online piracy. Tebas made the remark in a post on social media platform X, where he cited Prince’s response to a €14.25 million fine imposed on Cloudflare […]
Italy’s telecoms regulator, the Communications Authority (AgCom), has fined the US Internet services company Cloudflare €14 million for violating anti-piracy regulations. The fine, set at 1 per cent of the company’s global turnover, was issued because Cloudflare failed to disable access to pirated content as ordered on February 18th 2025. Cloudflare was required to block […]
Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has published its sixth annual Year in Review, a comprehensive look at how the internet behaved in 2025. The report – accompanied by a spotlight on the most popular internet services – highlights the most significant internet trends, traffic patterns and security insights from the past year. Global internet traffic […]
Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga says it is awaiting the European Commission strengthening its Recommendation on combatting online piracy of sports and other live events, following the conclusions presented on November 20th. These conclusions are the result of thorough monitoring by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), which acknowledged the Recommendation’s ineffectiveness, the […]
Cloudflare, the tech company that secures sites and manages their traffic, has rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows owners to automatically block AI companies from collecting their digital data. With the new setting, websites can block — by default — online bots that scrape their data, requiring the website owner to grant access […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from the DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 platforms. These illegal platforms, which allowed the unauthorised broadcasting of football matches, operated via both website and app, utilising Cloudflare’s infrastructure to conceal their criminal activities alongside legitimate […]
The Milan Court has issued a landmark ruling in the fight against digital piracy, siding with the Serie A League in its lawsuit against content delivery network provider Cloudflare. The court has ordered Cloudflare to prevent users from accessing websites illegally streaming Serie A football matches by blocking their domain names and network traffic. Cloudflare […]
Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has published its fifth annual Year in Review, exploring global Internet insights and security trends during 2024, accompanied by a deeper dive on the most popular Internet services. Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review underscores how every year, as more people and devices connect to the Internet, global traffic surges (up […]