Without fanfare, the American government has seized hundreds of sites illegally broadcasting sports matches. A massive crackdown that mainly undermines addresses using a certain domain name.
There was a time when Piracy was mainly limited to downloading a film for which one did not want to pay a cinema ticket. The practice is still current today, but another has become the majority over the years: illegal live broadcasts. Unsurprisingly, sporting matches are widely represented in the world of pirate streaming. Watching most major competitions requires subscribing to a paid channel or package.
It is not for nothing that rights holders such as Canal+ and beIN Sports are actively fighting against the phenomenon. Our Spanish neighbors are also very active on the subject, with LaLiga even going so far as to call for the banning of services that are essential to the proper functioning of the Internet. Alongside these actions that often make headlines, governments in various countries are acting in the shadows, as is the case in the United States very recently.
Hundreds of pirate sports streaming sites fall into the hands of the courts
The Super Bowl, the biggest American football championship in the country, was held on February 10. We can imagine that pirate broadcasts explode at that time. The justice system seized the opportunity to carry out a major, discreet raid, and it succeeded. More than 200 illegal sites were seized, including Acestream, Buffstream, Crackedstreams, Methstreams, StreamEast and Totalsportek, to name just the best known.
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The particularity of these addresses is their extension in .dev, managed by Google. This is surely what allowed such rapid global action, the Mountain View firm being able to easily act at this level. The owner of the sites concerned is now the National Center for Coordination of American Intellectual Property Rights (the IPR Center). At the time of publication of this article, no official statement has been made.
Source: TorrentFreak
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