User:Rojadirectame

Rojadirecta is known as one of the world’s major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The website links to broadcasts of many popular soccer matches plus other sports including NBA, MLB, NFL, NPB, IPL.

The site has well over a million visitors each day, and is listed one of the 100 most popular sites vacation in terms of traffic. Today, however, visitors were surprised by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized Rojadirecta’s .org domain.

Rojadirecta is definitely an unusual target for many reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.

Without getting a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized today.

“We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. Just like the previous seizures the domain registrar was bypassed within the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they haven\\\'t yet touched anything,” Seoane said.

Much like BitTorrent sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that can already be found on the Internet, and also carries links to .torrent files that are hosted on other sites.

The site is owned by a Spanish company that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. In addition, the site is not hosted in the US either. The only connection to the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

This indirect link with the US makes the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are completely despising the Spanish justice system and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

At the moment Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE as the sites seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is among the first of a new listing of seized domains.

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