The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NFL, NBA and MLB games. According to ACE, annual traffic to the site topped 1.6 billion visits.
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), which describes itself as the “world’s leading content protection coalition dedicated to combatting
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