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The web-site has nicely over a million visitors every day, and is listed among the 100 most well-known sites in Spain in terms of traffic. This morning, having said that, visitors were shocked by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized rojadirecta .org domain.
Rojadirecta is an uncommon target for various factors, not least since the web page has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a 3 year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.
Devoid of receiving a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized this morning.
“We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As together with the earlier seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they have not touched something,” Seoane mentioned.
Comparable to BitTorrent web pages, Rojadirecta does not host any copyrighted material. Rather, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams which can already be located on the internet, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other web pages.
The web site is owned by a Spanish company that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Furthermore, the website is not hosted within the US either. The roja directa only connection to the US is the fact that the .org domain is maintained by a US organization.
This indirect connection for the US makes the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are totally despising the Spanish justice system and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.
In the moment Rojadirecta displays the identical message from DOJ and ICE as the web pages seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It can be expected that Rojadirecta is one of the very first of a new list of seized domains.
The message below is posted on Rojadirecta.org
The sports streaming and P2P link internet site is at present on the lookout for legal suggestions, both in Spain and also the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all signifies they have.
Regardless of losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can nevertheless be accessed through rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly enough maintained by exactly the same enterprise as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they have several other domains which are not controlled by US authorities or companies.
The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda of the US Government. Seizing a domain which has been particularly declared to operate legally in other nations doesn't seem to be an obstacle. In this light, one has to wonder if generic domain names should be controlled exclusively by US companies.
Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his web-site was seized at the same time. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other web pages and never ever hosted any copyrighted material on its servers ver futbol .
