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Rojadirecta is known as one of the world’s major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The site links to broadcasts of numerous popular soccer matches plus other sporting events including NBA, MLB, NFL, NPB, IPL.

They have well over a million visitors each day, and is listed among the 100 most popular sites in Spain in terms of traffic. This morning, however, visitors were surprised at a warning from US authorities. Continuing the prior “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized Rojadirecta’s .org domain.

Rojadirecta is definitely an unusual target for many reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle vacation, which they won, but just one seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.

Without receiving a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized today.

“We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. Just like the previous seizures the domain registrar was bypassed within the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they have not touched anything,” Seoane said.

Much like BitTorrent sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that can already be found on the Internet, as well as carries links to .torrent files that are hosted on other sites.

The website is owned by a Spanish company that pays its taxes and has been declared to use legally in Spain. Additionally, the site is not hosted in the US either. The only connection to the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

This indirect link with the US makes the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the united states authorities are completely despising the Spanish justice system and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

Right now Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE because the sites seized this past year, including Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is among the first of a new list of seized domains.

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