It's June 15, 2024, 03:32:41 PM
all good things come to an end
http://atdhe.me/
Feds seize free sports streaming sites; some reappearBy Mark ZeiglerU.S. government officials announced Wednesday they had filed seizure warrants to shut down 10 popular websites that link to Internet transmissions of copyrighted sports events, stomping out the mushrooming business of online video piracy of live television.Or did it?One of the sites removed was Atdhe.net, which offers a regular catalog of network television shows and live sporting events on your computer for free, from blacked-out NFL games to pay-per-view boxing to soccer games from other side of the planet. According to one site that tracks Internet hits, it had more than 1.5 million unique visitors during December alone.Visitors to Atdhe.net are now redirected to a page with the logos of the Dept. of Justice, National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Homeland Security Investigations above two paragraphs citing U.S. laws that had been violated.Within hours, the site was available on Atdhe.me.The feds were able to shut down Atdhe.net, Channelsurfing.net and eight other sites because they used domain names registered by U.S. companies such as GoDaddy.com and eNom. The .com, .net and .org domain extensions also are administered by companies based in California, Pennsylvania and Virginia.And .me?It’s the domain for the former Yugoslavian principality of Montenegro. It’s administered by a company called doMEn, which has its headquarters on Dzordza Vasingtona street in the Montenegro capital of Podgorica.There were also reports that some sites might re-register with a .tv domain. That’s for the remote Polynesian island of Tuvalu.The 10 targeted websites are from six services: Atdhe.net, Channelsurfing.net, Hq-streams.com, Firstrow.net, Ilemi.com and Rojadirecta.org. All are “linking sites,” meaning they do not actually pirate or retransmit the copyrighted telecasts but merely provide links to places that do — in essence, saving the viewer the hassle of manually scouring the Internet for a specific game.A sports league or network can file a DCMA takedown notice with Justin.tv, but the game might already be over by the time the entire process is completed — or a site such as Atdhe.net might already have switched links to a new Justin.tv channel showing the same game.But there remains the sticky issue of jurisdiction and cooperation of foreign law-enforcement agencies.While the domain names of the 10 sites are registered with U.S. companies, their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not. Atdhe and two others are hosted by ISPs in Sweden. Two are from the Netherlands. One is from Canada.
Quote from: Adon on February 03, 2011, 10:35:31 AMhttp://atdhe.me/ that doesn't seem to work either.
http://projectfree.tv is a good one i use.