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The website has well more than a million guests each day, and is listed amongst the 100 most favorite web pages in Spain in terms of visitors. This morning, however, guests had been surprised by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the preceding “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 unusual target for various factors, not least since the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has produced this victory pointless.
With out 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 with the preceding seizures the domain registrar was bypassed within the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they've not touched something,” Seoane mentioned.
Comparable to BitTorrent web sites, Rojadirecta does not host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that could currently be discovered on the internet, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other sites.
The internet site is owned by a Spanish organization that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Also, the internet site just isn't hosted within the US either. The roja directa only connection for the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US corporation.
This indirect connection towards the US makes the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are absolutely despising the Spanish justice method and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.
In the moment Rojadirecta displays the exact same message from DOJ and ICE because the sites seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is one of the 1st of a brand new list of seized domains.
The message below is posted on Rojadirecta.org
The sports streaming and P2P link web-site is presently in search of legal tips, both in Spain and also the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all indicates 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 organization as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they have quite a few other domains that are not controlled by US authorities or providers.
The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda with the US Government. Seizing a domain which has been particularly declared to operate legally in other countries doesn't seem to become an obstacle. In this light, one has to wonder if generic domain names ought to be controlled exclusively by US providers.
Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his site was seized at the same time. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other websites and under no circumstances hosted any copyrighted material on its servers ver futbol .
