It is a tradition now well established. Each year, the office of the American representative to trade (USTR) requests copyright holders to share their comments for the publication of its special report 301. It then establishes a list of countries which require special attention in matters hacking. It is in this context that Laliga, the Spanish football championship, decided to bring charges against Google, Cloudflare and X (Twitter).
Piracy “facilitators”
The words are very heavy, since the leaders of Iberian football believe that these services allow the pirate offers to prosper:
Although this is not the main objective of this submission, it is important to underline the important role that certain intermediaries based in the United States, such as Google, Cloudflare, Coredeluxe and X (formerly Twitter), played as Essential facilitators in the continuous piracy climb throughout 2024.
And Laliga is even more precise: “These service platforms and providers offer essential infrastructure or services that allow hacking networks to prosper, in particular anonymization, the content diffusion network (CDN), the domain name system, the VPN, the Accommodation, content indexing and promotion of social networks ”.
As our colleagues from Torrentfreakwas accused of the Mountain View firm the presence of IPTV applications on Google Play Store or the indexing of illegal services in its search engine.
Laliga is even more precise and even offers a plan to Google to counter hacking:
The effective solution that Google must implement and enforce is to set up mechanisms allowing the overall deinstation of websites and areas that accumulate a high number of deindexation requests. In addition, Google is proposed that Google adopts preventive control measures to prevent the indexing of illegal streaming and IPTV services in its search engine.
Google increasingly denounced
As a reminder, this is not the first time that Google has been pointed out in terms of hacking. The officials of Italian football criticize him in particular for breaches following requests for dereferences filed since last month.
In detail, the abolition of 84 URL has been required. But only 12 % of them were taken into account by Google. For what ? All the others did not exist in Google’s search index when sending the opinion, according to the specialized site. The search engine therefore seems to have carried out its mission conscientiously. More information in our previous article here.

By: opera