Spanish publisher Jot Down receives LaLiga letter over shared Cloudflare IP address
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A Spanish publishing company got a letter saying its website was used to show illegal football streams. The website sits on a shared internet address that a big US company, Cloudflare, also uses for many other websites. The company says it cannot control who else uses that address.
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Jot Down, a Spanish cultural company that publishes books and magazines, says it received a letter from LaLiga, the body that sells broadcast rights for Spanish football, on 14 October. The letter said the Jot Down website was being hosted on the IP Internet Protocol The internet's basic rules for sending data, using numeric addresses for every connected device. Full definition of IP 188.114.96.5, which LaLiga claims is used to stream matches illegally. It asked the company to ask its provider to block the address, and warned that failure to comply could be treated as deliberate omission and complicity.
Jot Down says the address belongs to Cloudflare, a US company that provides infrastructure and security to millions of websites, and that the address is shared by many sites. The company says it has no control over who else uses it. The letter was unsigned, and the attached screenshot showed another website and a match, not any link to Jot Down.
Jot Down also says LaLiga sent almost identical letters to another company, RevistaCloud, in September 2025, citing the same address. The company says it does not know how many businesses have received such letters.
The publisher has written to Spanish officials, including the head of LaLiga and the Spanish economy minister, without a reply. It has now written an open letter to US President Donald Trump, asking him to intervene because Cloudflare is American. The company argues that protecting one business should not harm unrelated ones, and notes that a Barcelona commercial court ruling would allow operators to be asked to block the IP address.