This is the popular pirate IPTV for watching football without paying that DAZN has blocked: it received millions of views every weekend.

In recent years, we've seen LaLiga wage a tough and intense war against piracy, with both financial and legal efforts to try to put an end to the irregular broadcasting of matches from our country's professional football leagues. Although they haven't had the expected success, they are gradually winning their battles.

From financial penalties to new technologies that block websites that broadcast this type of content, LaLiga, along with other competitions and the telecom operators that own the rights to broadcast matches, such as DAZN and Movistar, have strengthened their fight against IPTV and other websites.

And while football piracy remains a major problem, in terms of the number of people who don't pay but still watch football, we've just learned that the live sports streaming platform DAZN, together with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), has just achieved a significant victory against pirates.

This is because Italy has announced the closure of the popular Calcio website , which served as a gateway for thousands of pirate IPTV channels. While it was primarily known for broadcasting live matches from all the major football leagues, it also offered Formula 1, MotoGP, tennis, the NBA, and other sports.

This website received millions of visits every weekend, mainly from Italy, but was also very popular in Spain, the United States, France, and Germany. Interestingly, this site hasn't been taken down yet, so if you search for it, you'll still be able to access it. Instead of finding pirated links , you'll find ways to watch soccer legally.

Everyone agrees that piracy is wrong and can be considered a form of theft, but both LaLiga and the services and platforms that broadcast the matches seem unwilling to look into the reason behind why piracy is so high in football compared to other forms of entertainment such as film or music.

And while these other sectors have adapted to the needs of users , offering content legally and, more importantly, at a price they can afford , football subscriptions continue to rise every year, with fees of more than 50 euros per month and you don't even have access to all the matches in the same competition.

Until the scales are balanced, and reasonable prices are set that fans can afford , piracy in football will continue to exist, because no matter how many blocks are imposed on large IPTVs and websites, the truth is that pirates always get away with it and find new ways to broadcast matches.