As part of its ongoing commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, LALIGA, the Spanish professional football league, successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from the DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 platforms this past weekend.
“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 domains,” said LaLiga in a prepared statement. “These domains were used as a digital shield to evade security controls. Together, the two platforms had more than 400,000 unique monthly users in Spain.”
According to independent reporting by Sporticos, LaLiga estimates that Cloudflare protects about half of the IP addresses that are distributing its programming.
A specialized anti-piracy team successfully carried out this operation, highlighting the efficiency of dynamic blocking measures implemented during Matchday 24 of LALIGA EA SPORTS and Matchday 27 of LALIGA HYPERMOTION.
These blocks, which LaLiga has previously clarified are neither large-scale nor indiscriminate, also targeted a series of specifically identified IPs that hosted pirate services and unauthorised streaming platforms operating in parallel.
Original announcement
LALIGA blocks illegal streaming platforms DazcFutnolios and RBTV77 in Spain. Press release. February 17, 2025. LaLiga
LaLiga accuses cloudflare of protecting piracy sites. Article. by Kiran Thakare, Staff writer. February 22, 2025. Sporticos
Why it matters
LaLiga again demonstrated its ability to combat audiovisual fraud with a swift and effective response. The organization operates a sophisticated piracy detection and mitigation platform that it developed in-house.
The defense of intellectual property rights remains one of LaLiga’s priorities as it works together with the different telecommunications providers to identify and shut down illegal streaming platforms, thus safeguarding the integrity, financial sustainability, and primary revenue sources of football clubs and the sports industry as a whole. LaLiga publicly condemned Cloudflare’s role in enabling piracy by knowingly protecting criminal organisations for profit.
