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The U.S. government has seized some online streaming sites, most notably channelsurfing.net and atdhe.net. These sites stream broadcast of sports games and other television. Channelsurfing.net broadcasted live for free shows on main TV networks, including NBC, ABC, FOX, and others while atdhe.net focused on just sports.
The first seizure was a Spanish sports streaming site, Rojadirecta. Their U.S. domains were seized but they continue to operate through non-U.S. domains. The controversial seizure was reported by torrentfreak.com.
Torrentfreak then went on to list other seized domains. “Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his site was seized as well. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other sites and never hosted any copyrighted material on its servers.
Update: Atdhe.net has been seized as well, another sports related site.
Update: firstrow.net has been seized, yet another sports related site.
Update: ilemi.com has been seized, yet another sports related site.”
Channelsurfing.net posted through twitter confirming the seizure as well, saying "www.channelsurfing.net was siezed today." then continued by posting that they were up on a non-U.S. domain.
News of the seizures spread across the web primarily in forum posts by users who were trying to figure out why the sites weren’t working.
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