With greater than 1.6 billion international visits throughout its 80 domains over the past yr, Streameast was simply the world’s hottest unlawful sports activities streaming platform.
On Wednesday, nevertheless — simply in time for the NFL season — Streameast instantly shut down, simply because the anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Leisure (ACE) introduced that Streameast was no extra.
“As we speak, ACE scored a powerful victory in its struggle to detect, deter, and dismantle felony perpetrators of digital piracy: by taking down the most important unlawful dwell sports activities platform wherever,” ACE Chairman Charles Rivki mentioned in a assertion. “With this landmark motion, we have now put extra factors on the board for sports activities leagues, leisure corporations, and followers worldwide—and our international alliance will keep on the sphere so long as it takes to determine and goal the largest piracy rings throughout the globe.”
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In line with ACE, the group labored in tandem with Egyptian authorities to take down the piracy community. Two males have been linked to greater than $6 million in illicit income from the unlawful pirating and have been arrested on associated copyright infringement fees.
Mashable Gentle Pace
Streameast was a well-liked sports activities streaming community of websites that supplied guests with free streaming entry to dwell video games, which are sometimes paywalled behind a authorized subscription service. The piracy community was an particularly widespread vacation spot for skilled soccer matches all over the world, starting from Europe’s greatest leagues, like England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga, to FIFA World Cup qualifiers and UEFA membership competitions.
Streameast additionally supplied streams to widespread U.S. sports activities leagues just like the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, and extra. Pay-per-views occasions like boxing and MMA occasions have been additionally streamed on the platform.
Whereas Streameast is not working on its important domains, mirror web sites and copycats have been rapidly deployed, and the sports activities piracy community seems to be working on various domains in the meanwhile.
Nevertheless, Mashable readers can learn how to observe sports activities on-line (together with faculty soccer and out-of-market NFL video games) on authorized companies like ESPN and Fox One.
In the meantime, sports activities followers who have been relying on Streameast to stream their favourite groups’ video games this fall are in mourning.
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