One of the world's largest piracy networks, which offered live streams to sports fans looking to evade streaming subscriptions, has been shut down, according to a coalition of media companies.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a coalition of more than 50 global entertainment companies and film studies, announced on Sept. 3 that in collaboration with Egyptian authorities it had shut down Streameast. Through over 80 domains, the illegal sports streaming platform logged more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year, ACE stated in a news release.

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