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‘RIP Streameast’: Largest Illicit Sports Streamer Is Shut Down (sports.yahoo.com)

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A coalition of media companies and Egyptian authorities announced Wednesday that they’d taken down live sports-focused piracy network Streameast, which they said had hosted 1.6 billion visits across 80 associated domains over the past year.

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[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago

It’s even worse for NBA basketball. You can pay for the entire league and it’s not too expensive, but they specifically black out the local or neighboring team. So you have to pay to watch every team except your own. It’s honestly completely absurd.