Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6591670/2025/09/03/streameast-worlds-largest-illegal-sports-streaming-platform-shut-down-in-sting/?source=user_shared_article

Streameast — the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform — has been shut down after a year long investigation, according to a leading United States-based anti-piracy organisation.

The network of 80 unauthorised domains generated 1.6billion combined visits over the past year, providing free access to global sports fixtures, including Europe’s top football leagues and competitions, such as the Premier League and Champions League, as well as the NFL, NBA and MLB.

43 comments

  1. Can someone DM me who the new Hydra head is gonna be?

    EDIT: Can you degens begging for a stream stop messaging me? Feel like fucking Ronaldo’s IG right now. No ones actually messaged me with a real alternative yet. I’m ignoring everything else.

  3. Oh well, looks like I’ll just move to another illegal streaming platform to get my free watches.

    I’m not paying these ridiculous prices to watch games

  9. I Remember when hesgoal went down there will be another that pops up and has already popped up. Nobody sane is paying the exorbitant fees they charge

  10. The biggest way to kill piracy would be to make sports easy to watch. Until then, the high seas it is.

  12. In the UK they’re now playing fearmongering ads about ‘piracy lets criminals steal all your stuff watch nowtv to be safe’ like bro, maybe make the product worth it instead

  14. Illegal streaming online? That’s disgusting. On a website? There’s so many of them though. Where? Which one?

  16. Steph McMahon makes one comment about VPNs and Mickey Mouse hires assassins to take all allies of fans out lol

  19. This just means I watch less live sports now. It’s kinda insane how hard they make it. The F1 app and steaming is amazing compared to anything NFL or NBA

  20. Streameast has been mediocre for the last year or two.

    Definitely better options out there but understandabke why they took it down. Most well known for sure.

  23. I’ve been watching the NBA on illegal streams for the past 7-8 years. Never bought cable, never bought the league pass and I’ve been able to watch every single game.

    Streameast was just the most mainstream one, there’s so many other websites. It’s not over guys

  26. ”The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

    – Gabe Newell

  30. It’s only been shutdown in the US, you can still access it through other servers. Dot GA gang

  33. Okay: scraping all of everyone’s ip, writings, plays, ideas, movies, music etc for ai training and development, to duplicate and sell back to us.

    Not okay: rebroadcasting 720 nba streams (which are already ad supported)

  35. Of course this would be the only place where the Trump admin shows basic competence 🤦

    Need to talk to your student loan provider? Good luck, chump! But, good news! We nuked the shitty 480p stream you used, so now you can pay the NFL 500 dollars while still dealing with constant tech problems!

  36. Make the games more accessible and less people will pirate the games. Seems like a no brainer to me.

  37. Does nobody use IPTV services? I haven’t used one of these sites in a couple years because IPTV works so well. $90USD for two years of every sport, live event, movie and TV show you can think of. And I don’t have to worry about using my computer, casting to my tv, etc. Sit on the couch, find what I want to watch like I was flipping through cable. Only issue I’ve ever had was solved by logging out and back in. Worth the money for sports alone.

  39. How angry are the feds gonna be when everyone just goes to one of the 100 other websites

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