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Illegal Sports Streaming Crackdown Puts Major Piracy Sites on Pause
Fans looking for free ways to stream sports games on unlicensed sites responded to the erasure of two popular web pages, though other options remain.
Around the same time, anti-piracy organization The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced that it had helped shut down hundreds of websites, many based in Vietnam, that had attracted more than 800 million visits in the past year. Although Methstreams and Crackstreams have not explained why they have been taken down, a plausible reason is they are accused of copyright infringement of live sports streams and that online service providers (OSPs) have acted in accordance with their legal obligations to order takedowns. While many users of the websites publicly saluted the operator for the service they provided, it wasn’t long before commenters pivoted to discussing which remaining site offered the best way to continue watching unlicensed game streams.
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