A Spanish court has declined to fine NordVPN for non-compliance with a February injunction ordering VPN providers to block pirate LaLiga football streams. The court rejected LaLiga's request for coercive fines after NordVPN presented technical evidence showing that flagged IP addresses changed too rapidly for effective blocking and that blanket IP-level blocking would cause widespread overblocking of legitimate sites. The ruling is procedural and narrow — it does not dismiss the underlying case or exempt NordVPN from future compliance. The original injunction remains in force. Meanwhile, broader concerns about overblocking affecting Cloudflare, Vercel, GitHub, and Docker have prompted Spain's parliament to pass a non-binding motion urging reform of the country's Digital Services Law to introduce 'technological proportionality.'
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