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![[TrendyMediaToday.com] Sports streaming hub Streameast βshut downβ in sting {file_size} {filename}](https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Streameast.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100 "[TrendyMediaToday.com] Sports streaming hub Streameast βshut downβ in sting {file_size} {filename}")
Some Streameast sites still appear to be live.
Streameast, one of the largest sports piracy platforms in the world, has been shut down according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an antipiracy group that counts NBC Universal, Netflix, and Disney among its members.
ACE announced in a statement that it worked alongside Egyptian authorities to shut down the βnotoriousβ platform, and The Athletic reports that after a year-long investigation Egyptian law enforcement carried out a sting on August 24th which disrupted the platformβs streaming infrastructure. ACE claims that Streameast drew more than 1.6 billion visits across 80 domains over the past year, making it βthe largest illicit live sports streaming operation in the world.β
The outage has already been noticed by fans over the past week, timed as it was to coincide with the new soccer season in Europe, not that I would know anything about hunting down streams for Premier League games that donβt get televised in the UK. Itβs probably also no coincidence that todayβs announcement comes the same week the NFL season starts.
Itβs not clear how effective the bust has been though β at the time of writing you can find plenty of Streameast sites seemingly alive and well, listing streams for todayβs MLB fixtures. ACE told The Athletic that itβs aware of these βcopycatβ sites and is investigating whether theyβre related, or made by Streameast impersonators.
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