After the controversy generated by the massive blockages of IP addresses that affected both illegal web pages and legitimate platforms, Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, has decided to rethink its strategy to combat piracy in sports broadcasts.
The new tactics will focus on Apply blocks selectivelyfocusing In the most audience matchesspecifically those involving teams such as Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid.
This change of approach seeks to minimize the collateral damage that previously harmed websites that nothing had to do with indiscriminate blocks associated with cloudflare. The implementation of This strategy is scheduled to start this weekend.
Selective blocks: LaLiga discriminates to clubs
Thebes’s decision implies that IP blocks will be carried out only during the equipment meetings with the greatest monitoring and in key schedules, coinciding with the live broadcast of these meetings.
It should be noted that The objective of reducing the impact on legitimate websites and focus on platforms that offer illegal broadcasts. According to the Calendar of the First Division of Spain 2024-25, the next relevant matches are:
- Villarreal vs. Real Madrid: Saturday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m., at the Ceramics Stadium.
- Atlético de Madrid vs. Barcelona: Sunday, March 16, at 9:00 p.m., at Riyadh Air Metropolitano.
The measure arises after the strong pressure received by the previous blockages, which affected legitimate websites without relation to piracy or free football broadcasts. When applying them more selectively, LaLiga intends to mitigate collateral damage and focus its efforts to fight it more precisely.
Although this new strategy seeks to be less aggressive, The blockages are expected to continue during the matches of the aforementioned teamspotentially affecting fans who try to access unauthorized transmissions of these meetings.
With this adjustment in your approach, Javier Thebas demonstrates his intention to protect the transmission rights and end the piracy and services that offer illegal transmissions through IPTV or Amazon Fire TV Stick lists, while trying to minimize the negative impact on websites and legitimate services.
Movistar compensates for users who claim for LaLiga blockages
In addition to the new plan that Javier Tebas has launched to combat piracy more selectively, there is another open front due to the massive blockages previously ordered by LaLiga. In recent weeks, Thousands of legitimate users have suffered cuts in their Internet services as a result of these measures.
To stop a possible massive leakage of unhappy clients, Movistar has begun to offer financial compensations to those affected. This situation especially affects the users of this operator and O2, who every weekend have seen how their connections were interrupted without prior notice, by confusing legitimate services with pirate pages.
The compensation have already begun to reach some clients who have formally claimed, as is the case of a user of the social network X, who after complaining for seven days of blocking to platforms such as OpenAi received 14.16 euros, approximately two euros per day affected.
Although these figures may seem small individually, if you consider that there are thousands of affected, the total expenditure that Movistar could assume would be considerable, so you are looking for ways to solve this case immediately.
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In addition, it should be noted that the User Rights Letter of Electronic Communications Services It establishes that customers have the right to receive economic compensation when their connections are unjustifiably interrupted, which can significantly increase the total cost for the operator.
For its part, LaLiga de Javier Tebas has also made available to affected users a specific mailbox to process claims. However, this process can be slow, confusing and bureaucratic, without guarantees of an immediate response.
In the end, the reality is that, although economic compensation can soften the discontent of the users, the underlying problem remains unresolved and it is possible that every weekend it will continue to cause discomfort as long as the blocking strategy is not definitively adjusted.
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