La Liga's anti-piracy court order blocks indie app Corner for ~900 hours a year
msg · x · 2026-10-10
The startup Corner charted in Spain for months but couldn't figure out why users intermittently couldn't access the app at night—its core use case. Cold calls with 50 users confirmed it. The culprit: La Liga has a court order letting it block Cloudflare IPs during matches to stop pirated streams, meaning roughly 360 matches × 2.5h ≈ 900 hours a year of accidental downtime.
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