{"id":139519,"date":"2025-09-04T19:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:33:54","slug":"sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting operation kills \u201ccopycat\u201d sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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 \u201clargest illicit live sports streaming operation in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0Streameast. The endurance of the popular piracy brand is a reflection of the entangled problems facing sports rights owners and sports fans.<\/p>\n<h2>Sting operation kills Streameast \u201ccopycat\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday, ACE, which is comprised of 50 media entities, said the Streameast network that it helped take down had 80 \u201cassociated domains\u201d and \u201clogged more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year.\u201d The network had 136 million monthly visits on average, <a href=\"https:\/\/nytimes.com\/athletic\/6591670\/2025\/09\/03\/streameast-worlds-largest-illegal-sports-streaming-platform-shut-down-in-sting\/\">The Athletic<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/09\/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/09\/sting-operation-kills-copycat-sports-piracy-site-with-1-6b-visits-last-year\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, a global antipiracy group, which included Apple TV+, Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. 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