Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Links Standard Orange Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav On Wednesday, a global antipiracy group, which included Apple TV, Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery, announced that it had assisted in a sting operation that took down Streameast, described as the largest illicit live sports streaming operation in the world.
Now, accessing websites from the thwarted Streameast brings up a link from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) that explains how to watch sports games legally. However, people have reported that they can still access illegal sports streams from a different Streameast, which is the original Streameast.
The endurance of the popular piracy brand is a reflection of the entangled problems facing sports rights owners and sports fans. Sting operation kills Streameast copycat Yesterday, ACE, which is comprised of 50 media entities, said the Streameast network that it helped take down had 80 associated domains and logged more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year.
The network had 136 million monthly visits on average, The Athletic reported. An ACE spokesperson told Ars Technica that about 10,000 sports events have been illegally shown on the streaming network over the past six years.
*Reporting by Arstechnica.*
Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year
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