Spanish football league blocks Google and Cloudflare within Spain due to piracy(web.archive.org)
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Spanish football league blocks Google and Cloudflare within Spain due to piracy
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LALIGA maintains its commitment to combating audiovisual fraud and the consumption of illegal content through various initiatives and legal actions. Now, thanks to the coordination of a specialized team, LALIGA has successfully and immediately shut down DuckVision, a pirate platform that provided illegal access to live sports content, including the Spanish league, to more than 200,000 people in Spain alone.
DuckVision consisted of a web application that encouraged users to download an Android app, which had over 200,000 active users in Spain during January 2025, according to data.ai. It was concealed by the services of the U.S. technology company Cloudflare, which intentionally protects criminal organizations for profit.
The website also provided access to pirated content and was complemented by an IPTV system and Ace Stream to distribute LALIGA’s content, which was illegally taken from broadcasters such as ESPN, Movistar, DAZN, Sky Sports, Ziggo, and Bein Sports, among others.
The illegal content offered by the pirate platform was promoted through Telegram channels with over 13,800 users and on DuckVision’s website, which had nearly 70,000 unique users in Spain as of December 2024, according to Semrush data. The shutdown of the platform and its channels adds to the closure of other well-known extensions such as Luar, Kodivertido, and TVChopo, which announced their immediate shutdown, as well as the closure of Cristal Azul, Spain’s most significant illegal streaming channel.
This action taken by LALIGA will be repeated in the coming days to disable other platforms and pirate content services. Meanwhile, the promoters and developers of DuckVision will be reported to the police and judicial authorities in the coming days, with all the gathered evidence.
Google, Cloudflare, VPNs, and other entities involved in piracy bear responsibility for the illegal activities they enable and profit from. LALIGA, backed by the law, will not stop defending football and the interests of its clubs against criminal activities related to audiovisual fraud and its laundering.