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Punishment Handed Down For Illegal Sports Streams
by Paul on 10/30/12 at 09:44 AM ET
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from TorrentFreak,
Earlier this year the U.S. authorities arrested Yonjo Quiroa of Comstock Park on suspicion of operating several websites that linked to unauthorized sports streams. Following his arrest, Quiroa was detained for more than nine months, and he has now been sentenced to time already served plus deportation to his home country. In addition the site admin has to pay restitution to five major sports leagues, totaling $13,000.
Under the flag of Operation Fake Sweep, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE unit seized several domains belonging to major sports streaming sites in February.
In addition to pulling these sites offline the feds also arrested 28-year-old Yonjo Quiroa of Comstock Park, Michigan. Quiroa was apprehended for allegedly operating nine of the seized domains and was jailed pending trial.
The sites in question, including hq-streams.tv, sportswwe.com and sports95.com, did not host any infringing files but listed hyperlinks to streams offered by popular third-party services such as Justin.tv.
In the criminal complaint an ICE officer states that through these links he was able to access unauthorized streams of NBA, NHL and WWE events.
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Talk about a witch hunt… He had websites that linked to other websites showing illegal streams of sporting events. 9 months without bail, a fine and deportation. Someone arrest Google, holy crap.
Posted by LivinLaVidaLockout on 10/30/12 at 11:23 AM ET