Authorities raided Streameast’s workplaces and shut down the most important unlawful sports activities streaming platform that had over 1.6 billion visits within the final yr

IT garnered over 1.6 billion visits within the final yr and averaged roughly 136 million month-to-month visits, in response to ACE. The coalition stated IT labored with Egyptian authorities to close down Streameast and its 80 related domains:

• The community illegally streamed an enormous vary of matches and video games from Europe’s Premier League and Champions League, in addition to these from the NFL, NBA, and MLB.
• Streameast additionally confirmed pirated F1 races, MMA fights, and boxing matches.

Authorities raided Streameast’s workplaces and took three laptops, 4 smartphones, $123,000 in Visa playing cards, and roughly $200,000 in crypto wallets.

Possibly you would steal a automobile. IT’s exhausting to slap a quantity on simply how a lot digital piracy prices broadcast firms, however one 2025 survey from Model Finance discovered that 43% of 14,000 people in 13 nations thought of utilizing an unofficial streaming service to observe video games. A 2023 research from YouGov discovered that 11% of adults did really pirate content material within the final yr, with about half of them saying they’d carried out so as a result of the fee was in any other case too excessive.—MM

This report was originally published by Morning Brew.