Translation of cartoon: "Set of polygons of general interest".
On Sunday 6 April, and most of Monday 7 April, this blog was blocked thanks to LaLiga and Movistar.
But, of course, according to Javier Tebas' language, that doesn't happen to any "big" website and the only ones who complain are fucking "geeks" or someone with 3 followers on twitter and who give them a lot of shit.
That's the way things are, people like Tebas and companies that think they are important can allow themselves the luxury of taking down hundreds or thousands of legitimate pages to protect their interests without any consequences. Football is like that.
what a face hahahah pic.twitter.com/OdQC1mzlWt
- Jordi 😾 script kato (@iordic) February 23, 2025
It started early Saturday morning. While I was trying to leave a draft post I realised that something was wrong. The certificate didn't resolve or simply there was no answer, but refreshing it was opening, albeit at a slow pace. A little later the blog would die completely.
It was my friend Jaime who first alerted me in the early hours of Monday morning.
I immediately knew what was going on. There was football and LaLiga had ordered the blocking of QUIC.CLOUD, the LiteSpeed CDN I use.
This morning, from LucusHost they also confirmed me that there was a problem with the resolution of the DNS of QUIC.CLOUD, so, waiting for the answer of LiteSpeed I changed them for those of LucusHost to go recovering the page little by little the page while they propagated their DNS....
LiteSpeed' s response came and confirmed all suspicions.
Your ticket "#5069962 DNS" has been updated.
Hello, John:We have deactivated the EU-ES-MAD-429 node, following the blocking order imposed by the Spanish ISPs.
This action was necessary because the node was linked to unauthorised streaming of LaLiga content through the CDN infrastructure.
The problem has been resolved a moment ago. Please check if the problem persists and attach a screenshot of the error.
Shortly afterwards, LiteSpeed also replied on Bluesky:
"We have temporarily withdrawn our Spanish nodes, to force CDN traffic through to other nodes (that do not have their IPs blocked), until we can find a better solution.
And so it is, consulting the status of its server, there is no longer any node in Spain.
Little by little, access was recovered through other nodes. Now I know that every day that there is football I will have to keep an eye on QUIC.CLOUD in case another node is wiped out without warning or stop using their services.
It's a fucking disgrace that the service and access to sites that have absolutely nothing to do with the rubbish of the football business is interrupted when they are making legitimate use of CDN or other services.
I still don't understand how LaLiga and Movistar are allowed to block pages on a whim, taking advantage of a ruling that should contemplate the corresponding exceptions to blocking, then we say that if China or North Korea.
If you hurry this is worse, because on top of that they have the backing of the justice system and the blockades are for their fucking commercial interests. This way they take any website by storm without caring about anything at all. Besides, nobody warns you about anything, nor apologises, nor compensates you or anything else. On the contrary, they insult you.
Many similes could be drawn and they would all seem crazy. Imagine that they cut off the electricity to a whole neighbourhood and leave thousands of families in the dark with the excuse that some of them use it for marijuana plantations. Wait, that did happen. And they did it without batting an eyelid.
Movistar already tried to make us believe that they are not so bad (their good advertising money costs them only lukewarm media criticism at best). They should be losing customers in droves for participating in this unjust killing of flies with cannons. For much less, boycotts have been carried out with very good results. For the moment I can only advise you not to buy a single plate from the meanies at Movistar.
The only thing I hope for now (without much hope) is a good class action lawsuit against this bunch of bastards and that there is a will to succeed. Although, deep down, my body is asking for something much less judicial.
The blocking of Cloudflare by LaLiga and Movistar in Spain began in 2018, as part of a legal strategy against the piracy of sports content, especially football matches.
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