Fastly, LaLiga collaborate on anti-piracy innovation.
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Fastly, LaLiga collaborate on anti-piracy innovation. April 10, 2026 Fastly, a specialist in global edge cloud platforms, and LaLiga, Spain's Professional Football Association, have partnered to develop technical solutions to address the illegal streaming of live sports, with a particular focus on LaLiga's matches. With LaLiga estimating that piracy costs its clubs between $700-$800 million (€600-€700 million) each year, the two companies are collaborating on a joint anti-piracy innovation project with the dual goals of helping platforms combat piracy and enabling rights holders like LaLiga to preserve the economic value of their copyrighted content by mitigating illegal use. Fastly and LaLiga began collaborating in 2025, motivated by the scale of illegal streaming of live sports, with numerous unauthorised streaming sites active on each match day. To help LaLiga combat this content theft, Fastly has developed a targeted, intelligent detection system that leverages AI and proprietary content signals to identify illegal streams in real time. A 2025 study by Grant Thorton revealed that at least 10.8 million unauthorised retransmissions of live events were detected in 2024, over 81 per cent of these retransmissions were never suspended, and only 2.7 per cent were addressed within the first 30 minutes of the event. Fastly's solution is designed to address these challenges...
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