Government's Pre-Super Bowl Seizure Of Sports-Streaming Sites

http://majority.fm Sports fanatics around the web had already started to notice, but today federal officials gave a full list of the sports-streaming websites they have seized in advance of Superbowl Sunday. They also defended their actions, saying that each year sports leagues and broadcasters lose millions of dollars from illegal streaming. But the sites are already back up at a variety of new web addresses, and critics of the government's action were quick to note that at least one of the sites, Rojadirecta, was found to be legal by two Spanish courts.

The seizure is part of "Operation In Our Sites," a series of actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that involve taking over web domain names that are alleged to be involved in intellectual property crimes. The operation started out with seizures of websites hawking counterfeit goods, but the seizures have moved into new territory that's included a BitTorrent search engine, music blogs, and now sports-streaming sites. via http://paidcontent.org/article/419-government-offers-new-details-on-seizure-o...

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[wnnw98]

There is a word for this type of government: fascist. It's just that simple.

[zmc33]

yup the new world is really gonna suck...

[mashack12]

wait wait wait.. its illegal how is that facism? you ppl dont know what real facist really is..

[Presentyouth]

Liberal Facism - the worst kind, i.e. Hitler (socialist)

[themredweirdoshow]

Jetpacks? I'm not sure which group of people is dumber - those who think the Jetsons SHOULD be real, or those who think the Flinstones WAS real!

[buttlescutt]

how is streaming different than watching it for free on channel 10??????? besides no commercials...? So I won't watch the commercials and be brainwashed to buy shit I don't want.... Lame Lame Lame Lame!!!!!!!(I have an old tv, no hd tuner, no cable, no antenna...)

[Strutinan]

FUCK O'BUSH! I cannot in good conscience vote for the lying hypocritical BASTARD, he is just another slimy motherfucking republican...

In 2012, I'm voting Al Gore!

[Zakdayak]

The same Operation they used to cease Torrent middleman sites. Without letters, paperwork, or warnings to cease and desist...and its ICE, WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH FOREIGNERS???

[spiderwebb33]

they should stream every game on nfl.com... even if they litter it with ads i would still watch if i didn't have a game on local tv

[ArkanumRReloadeD]

Fuck the U.S government!!!

[nhojflow]

People are going to have jetpacks and float?