Comment by piltdownman

It could be a lot worse. Soccer rights-holders effectively shut-down the Cloudflare facilitated Internet in Spain during soccer matches to 'curb piracy'.

The Soccer rightsholders - LaLiga - claim more than 50% of pirate IPs illegally distributing its content are protected by Cloudflare. Many were using an application called DuckVision to facilitate this streaming.

Telefónica, the ISP, upon realizing they couldn’t directly block DuckVision’s IP or identify its users, decided on a drastic solution: blocking entire IP ranges belonging to Cloudflare, which continues to affect a huge number of services that had nothing to do with soccer piracy.

https://pabloyglesias.medium.com/telef%C3%B3nicas-cloudflare...

https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/02/19/cloudflare-takes-...

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/spain-providers-blocks-cl...