“This request is based not on the provision of VPN services as such, but on the commercial exploitation and active promotion of their ability to circumvent court-ordered blocking measures.”

LaLiga wants NordVPN, ProtonVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark listed next to actual pirate sites. The evidence is affiliate blogs and influencers who earn commissions. LaLiga is the same league whose match-day blocking took down Cloudflare IP ranges and broke unrelated sites across Spain. Now it wants the EU to brand the workaround as piracy.