Apparently,
the United States didn’t even notice the European Parliament’s
criticism over domain name seizures, as last week the Super Bowl has
started, and sixteen popular sport-streaming services have immediately
been shut down, including FirstRowTV.
It isn’t a secret that millions of people use streaming services to watch sports streams, including pay-per-view events, such as UFC
or boxing. Nevertheless, 28-year-old Yonjo Quiroa from Michigan was arrested and accused of running nine sport-streaming services. The government claimed that he has made a profit of more than $13.000 out of advertising.
The list of the services that were shut down includes sportswwe.com, firstrow.tv, sports95.org, firstrowsports.com, , sports95.net, firstrowsports.net, xonesports.tv, firstrowsports.tv, hq-streams.tv, robplay.tv, soccertvlive.net, sports95.com, sportswwe.net, sportswwe.tv, youwwe.com, and youwwe.net.
As you remember, this wasn’t the first time American government went into action right before the Super Bowl: in 2011, ten similar services had been shut down mere days before the popular sport event was about to start. Nevertheless, for a few founders of such services American authorities seem to be more than overzealous regarding the copyright issues. They also tend to forget a number of “unimportant” details like international legislation and the fact that they have no right to dictate the rules in other countries.
FirstRow’s co-founder pointed out that since we didn’t live in a 3rd-world country, it was up to the court to decide if something was against the law, not to the entertainment industry lobbies. The site claimed they would continue until a court decided that the service was illegal, but thus far the experts have only seen 3 court rulings on that matter that say it wasn’t.
It isn’t a secret that millions of people use streaming services to watch sports streams, including pay-per-view events, such as UFC
or boxing. Nevertheless, 28-year-old Yonjo Quiroa from Michigan was arrested and accused of running nine sport-streaming services. The government claimed that he has made a profit of more than $13.000 out of advertising.
The list of the services that were shut down includes sportswwe.com, firstrow.tv, sports95.org, firstrowsports.com, , sports95.net, firstrowsports.net, xonesports.tv, firstrowsports.tv, hq-streams.tv, robplay.tv, soccertvlive.net, sports95.com, sportswwe.net, sportswwe.tv, youwwe.com, and youwwe.net.
As you remember, this wasn’t the first time American government went into action right before the Super Bowl: in 2011, ten similar services had been shut down mere days before the popular sport event was about to start. Nevertheless, for a few founders of such services American authorities seem to be more than overzealous regarding the copyright issues. They also tend to forget a number of “unimportant” details like international legislation and the fact that they have no right to dictate the rules in other countries.
FirstRow’s co-founder pointed out that since we didn’t live in a 3rd-world country, it was up to the court to decide if something was against the law, not to the entertainment industry lobbies. The site claimed they would continue until a court decided that the service was illegal, but thus far the experts have only seen 3 court rulings on that matter that say it wasn’t.
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