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Spanish soccer league breaks Internet to stop people from watching their precious futbol matches for free

Monday February 24, 2025. 12:15 PM , from BoingBoing
Spanish soccer league LaLiga broke a large portion of the Spanish internet because some naughty websites were letting 400,000 monthly viewers watch men chase balls around without paying the proper viewing tax to their corporate overlords.
LaLiga's Chief Internet Breaking Officer sprang into action and convinced Spanish ISPs to block these sites' IP addresses, conveniently forgetting to mention these addresses were shared by approximately eleventy billion other legitimate websites. — Read the rest
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