Antipiracy Coalition Says Streameast, Live Sports Network, Shut Down

A site billed as the largest live sports piracy operation in the world has been shut down in Egypt, an antipiracy coalition announced on Wednesday.

Streameast had logged more an 1.6 billion visits in the past year, with 80 associated domains, offering unauthorized access to top European soccer leagues. It also gave users access to UEFA club competitions and international qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro and UEFA Nations League, and CONMEBOL Copa America, according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the global antipiracy group.

ACE, which is led by the Motion Picture Association, said that Streameast also provided access to piracy sites for the NFL, the NBA, the NHL and Major League Baseball, as well as sites for pay-per-view boxing, Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA, and motorsports, including Formula One and Moto GP. 

The shutdown followed an investigation from July, 2024 to June, 2025, and operators were arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement in an action by Egyptian authorities late last month, according to ACE. Egyptian authorities also seized three laptops and four smartphones used to operate the sites, as well as 10 Visa cards that contained about 6 million Egyptian pounds, or $123,000 in U.S. dollars, as well as about $200,000 USD in crypto wallets, ACE said. Authorities also found that the operators created a UAE shell company to funnel advertising revenue from the sites.

All sites will be redirected to a “watch legally” page. Most of the visits to Streameast originated from the U.S. and Canada, per ACE.

Charles Rivkin, the chairman of ACE and CEO of the MPA, said in a statement, “With this landmark action, we have put more points on the board for sports leagues, entertainment companies, and fans worldwide—and our global alliance will stay on the field as long as it takes to identify and target the biggest piracy rings across the globe.”