LaLiga works with CDN77 and Akamai Technologies in its fight against piracy

LaLiga actively collaborates with various technology companies, such as the European CDN77 and the American Akamai, with the aim of being increasingly effective in deactivating illegal broadcasts of the competition over the Internet in real time and precisely.

With the significant increase in audiovisual fraud observed by different sports competitions around the world, LaLiga redoubles its efforts in the fight against piracy, led by its Anti-Fraud team. The global anti-piracy strategy, launched by LaLiga more than 12 years ago, is made up of work on various pillars: from awareness of all actors involved in the sports and entertainment industry, as well as society in general, the protection of emissions at their source, to access to pirate signals through streaming, applications and IPTVs.

LaLiga has developed advanced technologies and innovative models to protect audiovisual rights in real time. Anti-piracy efforts, supported by judicial resolutions, allow LaLiga to work with the entire technological ecosystem to block in real time those IP addresses where illegal broadcasts are detected.

In this sense, LaLiga is achieving concrete results in its audiovisual anti-fraud strategy, thanks to effective collaboration with multinational technology companies, such as CDN77 (European company) and Akamai Technologies (American company), which provide Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, including anonymization and reverse proxy. These success stories in collaboration show that it is possible cWork in real time to stop piracy, blocking the IP addresses where illegal broadcasts are detected, and quickly and effectively unblocking possible third-party websites that may be affected during these actions against cybercriminals.

Although historically these technologies offered technical infrastructure that could hide offenders, today they are acting proactively, removing illegal content in a matter of minutes. These companies remove or block illicit streams within an average of 15 minutes from notification, and in many cases in less than 15 minutes.

From LaLiga they highlight that this type of collaboration confirms that the Technological intermediaries have the technical capacity to act quickly, as long as there is a willingness to cooperate. The measures are applied directly to CDN and hosting services, allowing pirate infrastructure to be disabled in real time, without relying on lengthy court proceedings. LaLiga aspires to optimize these collaboration processes to further speed up action times, as for example platforms such as TikTok, YouTube or Meta do, which use automated systems capable of eliminating illegal content in an estimated time of 3 minutes.

Likewise, in the field of cloud hyperscalers, LaLiga is already in the dialogue phase with Amazon Web Services with the aim of extending this type of effective cooperation and protecting its contents globally.

Technology companies such as CDN77 and Akamai Technologies implement measures not only against illegal content hosted or distributed through their infrastructures, but also against users who misuse them for illicit purposes. These companies act under the umbrella of effective intellectual property rights protection programs, demonstrating a firm commitment to the audiovisual industry and to their own clients to offer them an experience that minimizes possible impacts, without giving up the protection of intellectual property, security and privacy of user data.