Aside from the sportive stakes, the\u00a0Premier League<\/a>\u00a0also has a vested interest in selling broadcast rights. These rights generate billions of pounds in revenue per year; a staggering amount unmatched by any other football league.<\/p>\n Yet, other leagues are not the main threat to these broadcast revenues. Instead, piracy has emerged as the Premier League\u2019s main nemesis, with many football fans turn to cheaper pirate streaming services to watch \u2018the people\u2019s game\u2019.<\/p>\n In recent years, the Premier League has tried several legal avenues to\u00a0tackle the piracy problem<\/a>. In addition to obtaining\u00a0blocking orders<\/a>\u00a0in multiple countries, the organization has been a driving force behind several\u00a0lawsuits<\/a>, some of which resulted in\u00a0prison<\/a>\u00a0sentences.<\/p>\n While the football league typically finds the law on its side, identifying its \u2018opponents\u2019 isn\u2019t always easy. Operators of streaming sites and services are typically aware of the legal risks and do their best to remain anonymous. Presumably as part of this strategy, they use services made available by Cloudflare.<\/p>\n Cloudflare doesn\u2019t make the operators of piracy sites \u2018anonymous\u2019 but it does shield their hosting locations from public view. Rightsholders can overcome this barrier through formal complaints, after which Cloudflare identifies the hosting services. To obtain additional information, however, rightsholders have to go to court.<\/p>\n Earlier this month the Premier League took this follow-up step by asking a California federal court to issue a DMCA subpoena. The request, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, identifies dozens of target pirate streaming sites and \u201cAccess Points\u201d. Through the court, the Premier League hopes to identify the persons connected to these domains.<\/p>\n Before going to court, the Premier League\u2019s American law firm,\u00a0Hagan Noll & Boyle<\/a>, sent a formal notification to Cloudflare.<\/p>\n \u201cCloudflare is asked to remove or disable access to Premier League\u2019s copyrighted works, which, based on the infringement that has occurred to date through the websites and domain names identified above, will continue to be infringed in this same manner throughout the Premier League season,\u201d attorney Timothy M. Frank wrote.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The letter identifies specific\u00a0streaming site domains<\/a>\u00a0and includes screenshots of the websites where these are shown.<\/p>\n In addition to public-facing sites, the Premier League pointed to various \u201cbackend links\u201d where the pirated football streams are actually being sourced. The legal paperwork shows unauthorized broadcasts of various matches including Brentford v. Leeds United, Crystal Palace v. Manchester City, and Nottingham Forest v. Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several of the targeted sites utilize sophisticated redirection chains to reach their audience. For example, dooball345.com was found to redirect through dooball345s.com before landing on dooball345x.com. Similarly, pelotalibrevivo.net redirects users to pirlotvenvivo.club.<\/p>\n The court records also highlight how these sites often use unique CDN links and m3u8 playlists, sometimes involving tokens and session IDs\u2014to serve live content to millions of global viewers.<\/p>\n The Premier League\u2019s letter to Cloudflare didn\u2019t result in the immediate termination of the accounts, but it is used to request the DMCA subpoena at the the California federal court.<\/p>\n The proposed subpoena, which has yet to be signed off on, would require Cloudflare to hand over information sufficient to identify the alleged infringers, including any names, physical addresses, IP addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, payment information, account updates, and account histories.<\/p>\n Whether the Premier League will find any of the information usable is another matter. Many pirate site owners use inaccurate data, but the explicit request for payment information and account history aims to provide a clearer financial trail than standard subscriber data.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n A copy of the requested DMCA subpoena is available\u00a0here (pdf)<\/a>\u00a0and the Premier League\u2019s declaration can be found\u00a0here (pdf)<\/a>. Below is a list of the targeted \u201cAccess Point\u201d\u00a0domain names<\/a>\u00a0identified in the legal filing:<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013 247sport.org Source: \u00a0Cloudflare & Pirate Sites<\/h2>\n
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\n\u2013 antenasport.org
\n\u2013 bingsport.site
\n\u2013 deporte-libre.click
\n\u2013 dooball345.com (redirects to dooball345s.com and dooball345x.com)
\n\u2013 goaldaddyth.com
\n\u2013 hesgoal.watch
\n\u2013 librefutboltv.su
\n\u2013 livesports088.com (redirects to keelalive52.com)
\n\u2013 ovogoaal.com
\n\u2013 pelotalibrevivo.net (redirects to pirlotvenvivo.club)
\n\u2013 rbtvplus17.help (redirects to fctv33.work and nplb6earneyhtycourage.sbs)
\n\u2013 ronaldo7.me (redirects to streameasthd.com)
\n\u2013 t4tv.click
\n\u2013 vachvoi.link
\n\u2013 wearechecking.online (redirects to wac.rip)
\n\u2013 yallalshoot.com
\n\u2013 yalla4shoot.com
\n\u2013 yallla-shoot.com (redirects to yallashoot-4k.com, yallashootlivehd.com, wuyh.online )
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