Judicial Distributed Denial of Service
This isn’t science fiction.
It’s Spain’s new digital reality.
It’s not launched by a hacker in a cave.
A cyberattack from Russia? Nope.
From China? Neither.
It comes with a court seal, official letterhead,
and the blessing of people who don’t even know how to configure Wi-Fi.
What is a J-DDOS?
It’s a Judicial Distributed Denial of Service:
A digital blackout triggered by poorly informed and poorly executed judicial decisions.
- Legal websites blocked without review.
- Payment platforms taken down with no technical justification.
- Educational projects, media, forums, freelancers… all wiped out for sharing infrastructure.
All under the disguise of intellectual property protection.
All executed without a single technical analysis.
All with zero transparency, zero accountability, and no real way to defend yourself.
A justice system without tech knowledge is signing off on indiscriminate blackouts.
And what was meant to protect rights has become a weapon of mass legal destruction.
Because in a J-DDOS, justice isn’t delivered.
Damage is.
❌ No proportionality, just indiscriminate punishment.
❌ No distinction between offenders and bystanders: everyone falls.
❌ No warning. Just sudden disconnection.
❌ No defense. Just a silent sentence, instantly enforced.
It’s not a legal tool.
It’s an explosive charge signed by a court
and detonated by a mosquito-brained decisionmaker over the network.
The result is devastating
Small businesses lose visibility and sales.
Digital media vanish from the web with no explanation.
Institutional websites get caught in the crossfire for sharing IPs or CDNs.
Users can’t make payments, complete paperwork, or access public services.
And the real pirates? Laughing their asses off.
Because dodging these blocks is as easy as winning hide and seek
against a blindfolded three-year-old.
While LaLiga fires blindly and ISPs hit “block” like sleepwalking dart throwers…
the actual lawbreakers are three steps ahead, running VPNs, Tor, and proxies more solid than the court’s own network.
They’re locking the front door…
while the pirates walked out the back days ago.
Where is the State?
Ministry of Culture: silent.
Secretary for Digital Transformation: missing.
Judicial Council: no tech training, no protocols.
ISPs: applying blocks without questions, terrified of disobedience.
No one questions.
No one audits.
No one halts a dynamic that’s already caused the biggest civil service blackout in Spain’s digital history.
This isn’t a fight against piracy.
It’s censorship by ignorance.
It’s disinformation turned into rulings.
It’s justice becoming a threat to the network that powers the 21st century.
Fundamental rights, at stake
- The right to information.
- The right to work.
- The right to communicate.
- The right to run a business online.
- The right to reputation.
All of it can vanish, in seconds, by a decision made without knowledge or technical evaluation.
And if no one acts now, this won’t be an exception. It’ll become standard procedure.
What we demand isn’t science fiction. It’s the bare minimum for a country that claims to be digital.
Judges who don’t sign off on tech rulings without understanding what an IP address is.
Impact analysis protocols before blindly blocking IPs.
Prior notice — because no one should find out they’ve been “convicted” by seeing their website down. That’s real heavy metal.
Legal protection for those caught in the crossfire.
J-DDOS isn’t a technical term. It’s a distress call.
Because when ignorance is institutionalized,
the Internet stops being a space of freedom…
and becomes a testing ground for accidental censorship.
