At least 55 sports event streaming sites were taken down in the last week by the United States Attorney’s Office, the American justice body equivalent to our public prosecutor’s office. The action was led by the District Attorney of Maryland, which targeted broadcasts of FIFA World Cup matches.
In September, FIFA representatives reported several streaming sites to the United States Attorney’s Office — two months before the start of the World Cup🇧🇷 The investigation concluded that the websites were infringing on the copyright of the sporting event.
There will be no Cup! And no other sports on pirated streaming
The focus of action by the District Attorney of the District of Maryland was to stop pirated broadcasts of World Cup games. However, most of the blocked websites also broadcast other sporting events – which continue to happen even with the World Cup dominating the sports headlines.
In the statement of the lawsuit, released on its own website, the Justice of Maryland does not reveal the streams that were blocked. However, the website torrent freak researched the top sports stream URLs and found some of the targets.
When accessing these sites, the image that the domain was seized by the American justice will be displayed on the home page — a classic image of actions against digital piracy.
Among the 55 blocked sites are, of course, the most popular ones, such as Freestream, WeakStreams, iStream2Watch and HesGoal.
But just like the Lernaean Hydra, a blocked domain generates a new domain — after all, it’s 2022. Most of the seized sites have already created new URLs to broadcast the most varied sporting events.
HesGoal, at its new address, released a message stating that it is ending transmissions of UEFA matches, but did not report anything about FIFA matches.
Legal dispute continues
The US court said it will continue to block pirated sports streams. And so the cat-and-mouse chase will ensue, as investigations can easily accuse sites of further copyright infringement.
A site is blocked, then reappears with another link. Justice blocks the new domain. And so it will go on — there is no golden goal.
With information: torrent freak and maryland attorney
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