Feds bust Michigan web ‘pirate’ for illegal web streaming of sports

[Blue_Tires]

When Tom Brady was sitting out the Super Bowl last year, he was able to see the big game from a world away, he said.

"I was rehabbing my foot in Costa Rica watching the game on an illegal Super Bowl website and now I'm actually playing in the game, so it's pretty cool," the New England Patriot quarterback admitted at the time.

Not so cool, according to the feds.

On Thursday, the government charged a Michigan man who operated websites that streamed pirated telecasts of top sporting events

Yonjo Quiroa. 28, of Comstock Park, MI, was hit with one count of criminal infringement of a copyright.

"Sports fans may be tempted by illegal streaming websites, but in the end, it is they who pay the price," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.



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[Drale]

1. If they don't want people streaming sports illegally,

they have to make them more excessable. When I was living at school, I missed half of the Cubs games and most Hawks games because we didn't get Comcast Sportset. They are losing more people to view their commercials because of that then illegal streamers.

[backscatter712]

2. Feds enforcing the monopolies... and the public gets gouged. n/t

[msongs]

3. there is no constitutional right to free access to private sports/entertainment events

such events are essentially useless but have entertainment value. the perpetrators have every right to share it as they wish. one can always play ones own football game in the front yard or local park lol

[Drale]

4. I would say

This is more the stupidity of corpotations then anything else.