Spain’s parliament approved a non-legislative initiative to reform the Digital Services Act and stop indiscriminate IP blocking by LaLiga court orders.
Key Takeaways
The initiative, agreed by PSOE and ERC, targets reform of Spain’s Digital Services Act to add proportionality, graduated measures, and third-party protections.
The vote is non-binding but sets the legislative framework; a similar proposal was rejected in Congress last year.
Amendments will require platforms on shared infrastructure to implement selective blocking, preventing collateral damage to unrelated services.
Real harm documented: public services like Transporta’m (transport infrastructure status) and geolocation apps go dark during every LaLiga match.
PP rejected the initiative but independently advanced amendments for more precise, proportionate execution of anti-piracy judgments.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters confirm the core technical mechanism: LaLiga court orders force ISPs to block shared Cloudflare IPs during matches, taking down unrelated legitimate sites across Spain.
Operators running businesses in Spain (event ticketing, apps) report real downtime impact, reinforcing that collateral blocking is not theoretical.
Skepticism exists that the blocking achieved anything against piracy, making the cost-benefit case against the current approach strong.
Notable Comments
@matteason: Confirms blocked IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, making collateral outages structural, not accidental.
@dbbk: Event ticketing operator in Spain notes downtime is “basically not acceptable” for their use case.
@oliverx0: Cloudflare WARP works as a practical bypass for affected users in Spain right now.
