Update on Spain and LALIGA blocks of the internet
By Steven Van ·
Two Vercel IPs were blocked by Spanish ISPs under a LALIGA court order; by 18 April both were unblocked and customers needed to do nothing.
Spanish ISPs are blocking entire IP addresses under a court order obtained by LALIGA, and Vercel infrastructure is among what has been caught. Vercel published an update on the situation on 15 April 2025.
In December 2024, Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona authorised LALIGA to require Spanish ISPs, including Movistar, Vodafone and Orange, to block IP addresses tied to unauthorised football streaming. The court upheld the ruling in March 2025. Enforcement has since widened, and sites on shared IPs became unreachable for some users in Spain, whether or not they have anything to do with piracy. The blocks are mainly enforced on LALIGA matchdays.
Vercel says the ISPs are not using the usual method of inspecting the SNI header to block specific domains. They are blocking whole IPs instead, so everything behind them goes offline. Two Vercel IPs were affected: 66.33.60.129 and 76.76.21.142. Sites on them include Tinybird and Hello Magazine. Vercel says Cloudflare, GitHub Pages and BunnyCDN are also affected, and that users in neighbouring countries are not.
An update dated 18 April says both IPs are no longer blocked and Vercel customers need to take no action. Vercel says it is working with LALIGA to remove illegal streaming content, and that it had received no LALIGA-related takedown notices in the previous seven days.