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The world of free, mostly illegal sports watching was dealt a massive blow when the calendar flipped over to September 2025. Streameast, home to typically paywalled broadcasts and woefully useless chat rooms screeching ambivalently about said broadcasts, is no more.
The host to pirated streams from across the globe, Streameast was a way to illicitly watch pretty much any sport that could be bet on. But on the eve of the 2025 NFL regular season, the popular and, again, very much illegal, site was shuttered. Two men associated with the site were arrested in Egypt for copyright infringement related to Streameast and millions of dollars in laundered advertising money related to the site, according to The Athletic.
“ACE scored a resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy: by taking down the largest illegal live sports platform anywhere,” said Charles Rivkin, chairman of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), who claimed partial credit for the operation.
“With this landmark action, we have put more points on the board for sports leagues, entertainment companies, and fans worldwide — and our global alliance will stay on the field as long as it takes to identify and target the biggest piracy rings across the globe.”
While it's unclear how exactly this helps fans, it's a win for streaming services and exclusive rights holders -- the plucky underdogs of the sports world. Streameast has been defeated. Surely that will be the end of sports broadcast piracy forever.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Is Streameast down forever?
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The host to pirated streams from across the globe, Streameast was a way to illicitly watch pretty much any sport that could be bet on. But on the eve of the 2025 NFL regular season, the popular and, again, very much illegal, site was shuttered. Two men associated with the site were arrested in Egypt for copyright infringement related to Streameast and millions of dollars in laundered advertising money related to the site, according to The Athletic.
“ACE scored a resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy: by taking down the largest illegal live sports platform anywhere,” said Charles Rivkin, chairman of the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), who claimed partial credit for the operation.
“With this landmark action, we have put more points on the board for sports leagues, entertainment companies, and fans worldwide — and our global alliance will stay on the field as long as it takes to identify and target the biggest piracy rings across the globe.”
While it's unclear how exactly this helps fans, it's a win for streaming services and exclusive rights holders -- the plucky underdogs of the sports world. Streameast has been defeated. Surely that will be the end of sports broadcast piracy forever.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Is Streameast down forever?
Continue reading...
