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Spain's government is made up of spineless dinosaurs. So the official soccer diffusion corps bought the courts and sued all the ISPs to force them to block all the soccer piracy sites during a match. Those sometimes ended up being hosted on cloudflare's IPs. Thus, a good portion of cloudflare goes down for the spanish clients when there's a game on.

Did that work? Hell no, piracy sites just moved elsewhere. But big soccer is slowly ruining the internet and all the EU governments are letting it happen

One of the things I find most amusing is that Movistar is both one of the main football diffusion corp, and one of main national ISPs. So Movistar sued itself so that it can block the parts of the internet that they don't like
Eventually the soccer corpos will end up tasking an AGI with solving soccer stream piracy and it will hopefully destroy all stadiums and free us from this bullshit.