A major anti-piracy organization has announced the closure of the largest website in the world for unauthorized live streaming of sporting events. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said Wednesday that it had partnered with Egyptian law enforcement to shut down Streameast, which had received over 1.6 billion visits over the previous 12 months. Millions of people were able to watch unauthorized feeds of Major League Baseball games, Formula One races, and Premier League football games.
The “resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy” was declared by Charles Rivkin, the chairman of ACE. “With this landmark action, we have put more points on the board for sports leagues, entertainment companies, and fans worldwide,” he stated. The crackdown follows a study earlier this year that revealed “industrial scale” illicit sports streaming.
Sports broadcasting is a lucrative industry; last year, the global value of media rights surpassed $60 billion (£44 billion). Some fans have turned to illegal streaming as a result of the growing expenses of rights deals being passed on to them at home and the requirement for memberships to several sites that show various matches. Traffic to Streameast’s many domains came mostly from the US, UK, Canada, Philippines, and Germany, according to ACE.
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