Federal Agent Poses As WWE Rep To Seize Websites That Linked To Pirated Telecasts
 

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security enforcement agent posed as a WWE representative last week and offered to buy various domain names from a Michigan man named Yonjo Quiroa. In reality, the agent was part of an operation to take down 16 websites owned by Quiroa, who is also known as Ronaldo Solano, that linked to other websites that hosted pirated telecasts.

Reuters reported today that Quiroa, 28, was making at least $13,000 from online merchants who advertised with him. His websites linked to other sites that hosted pirated telecasts from the NFL, NBA, NHL, WWE and TNA Impact Wrestling.

The seized websites are firstrow.tv, firstrowsports.com, firstrowsports.net, firstrowsports.tv, hq-streams.tv, robplay.tv, soccertvlive.net, sports95.com, sports95.net, sports95.org, sportswwe.net, sportswwe.tv, sportswwe.com, xonesports.tv, youwwe.com and youwwe.net.

http://www.wrestlingnewsworld.com/fe...ted-telecasts/

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good job agent :thumbsup :upsidedow

Here we go with taking down little guys

gangster...i like it! i always wanted to be a secret agent

The power of the National Football League in action.

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first row was not the little guy. I can assure you that.

so were these but sites or what?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/firstrow.tv#

922 Rank in US.

Department of Homeland Security?

Never heard of them so only assumed by $13k and linking to hosts it was just a small op.

site seems pretty big. must have made more than that.

The funny part is that they showed the games with commercials and all. So who was losing revenue here? :1orglaugh

I thought they were busy fighting terrorism and protecting us from the mexicans?

There was a beheading here just a few days ago...

$13k what? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?

No wonder the file sharing sites gain ranking so fast, the model is basically nothing but backlinks.

i was reading team america can only go after .com .net .org i assume .us.

Take them all down, big or little!

$13k is probably yearly

Definitely not little guys. :1orglaugh Their U.S Alexa rank is under 1,000 JUST for firstrow.tv. All combined their sites get massive amounts of traffic.

I've seen links posted up to that site for UFC and Boxing events that cost $50-$60+ a pop and they stream them live. That whole 'linking to pirated telecasts' actually makes it sound a lot more innocent than it is. They were directly streaming the events using those services then embedding the feed onto their sites. :1orglaugh

I doubt that number is accurate, I bet they were pulling more than that, monthly.

here we go with you being clueless

again,,,

What gives ice the power to take .tv domains? Unless the servers were in the us, they have no jurisdiction. So dumb

Wrong, .TV is operated by VeriSign, which is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.