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The web-site has well over a million guests per day, and is listed amongst the 100 most well-known sites in Spain in terms of website traffic. This morning, nonetheless, visitors had been shocked by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the earlier “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 numerous causes, not least since the web site 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 produced this victory pointless.

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

“We haven't been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As using the earlier seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they have not touched anything,” Seoane stated.

Comparable to BitTorrent web sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that could currently be found online, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other internet sites.

The website is owned by a Spanish firm that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Moreover, the web-site isn't hosted in the US either. The roja directa only connection to the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

This indirect connection to the US tends to make the seizure a dubious action, according to Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are entirely despising the Spanish justice process and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

At the moment Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE as the web sites seized last year, which includes Torrent-Finder. It is 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 site is at present seeking legal assistance, both in Spain and also the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all indicates they've.

Regardless of losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can nevertheless be accessed by way of rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly adequate maintained by exactly the same business as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they have several other domains that happen to be not controlled by US authorities or businesses.

The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda with the US Government. Seizing a domain which has been specifically declared to operate legally in other countries does not seem to become an obstacle. In this light, 1 has to wonder if generic domain names need to be controlled exclusively by US firms.

Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his web site was seized also. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other internet sites and never ever hosted any copyrighted material on its servers ver futbol .