AUTHORITIES have celebrated another win against illegal streaming after shutting down a popular platform visited by more than 123 million times.

The site showed major football games including Premier League matches, Series A, La Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 on the cheap.

Known as Calcio, the site was available across 134 domains.

It was particularly popular in Italy - which made up 80 per cent of Calcio's traffic - but it was used by people in other countries across Europe, as well as the US too.

The operation was ran by a group located in Moldova .

Those behind it agreed to cease Calcio after being approached, according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition which led this latest crackdown.

It comes as telly bosses warn th

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