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DOJ seizes over 1,000 internet domains that illegally streamed World Cup games
The Washington Times ^ | 21 July 2026 | Brad Matthews

Posted on 07/21/2026 1:08:10 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701

The Justice Department announced Monday that it snatched over 1,000 websites used to illegally stream matches during the just-completed FIFA World Cup.

The final tally of sites snared includes the nearly 400 internet domains shut down by the end of June.

The seizures in the U.S. occurred through three enforcement actions, the Justice Department said in a release.

American authorities also worked with their counterparts in Latin America to block additional illegal streaming sites, including 14 in Argentina, 309 in Brazil, 1,140 in Colombia, 256 in the Dominican Republic, 223 in Ecuador and 28 in Peru.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: broadcast; fifa; football; piracy

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This will be worse in 2027 with the Obamas taking the Women's World Cup to their PPV services and no television coverage Stateside. Some may try to use VPN's to get Australian television for Australian national team games and the Final as CBS Sports owns Australian rights for their Network Ten.

Netflix intends to ban all American media from covering the games so we may see some networks using foreign media badges (NBC using ITV and CBS using Network Ten) to cover the Women's World Cup for their sites.

1 posted on 07/21/2026 1:08:10 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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Oh, noes! No women’s world cup on free TV!? Personally, I would be more willing to pay to watch puppies play soccer.


2 posted on 07/21/2026 1:12:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Yeah I would be devastated and inconsolable if I couldn’t watch the women’s finals.


3 posted on 07/21/2026 1:15:17 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

Taxpayer dollars well spent.


4 posted on 07/21/2026 1:16:38 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Texas Eagle

No television at all. Obama took the ball and ran home with it for his PPV, and Biden allowed it. This is why Trump is going after this trend because CBS has Australian rights on their broadcast network there acquired in 2017.


5 posted on 07/21/2026 1:16:51 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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6 posted on 07/21/2026 1:19:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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7 posted on 07/21/2026 1:19:30 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Texas Eagle

Oh, noes! No women’s world cup on free TV!? Personally, I would be more willing to pay to watch puppies play soccer.

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Protecting the rich.

Watch those ads, peons! Watch those ads!

A great injustice has occurred! Some networks didn’t get credit for the viewership that they should have!!!
AHhhh ahhh ahhHhhhhh!!!!1!


8 posted on 07/21/2026 1:21:31 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Protecting the rich like cops stopping shoplifters at Whole Foods, or at Home Depot?


9 posted on 07/21/2026 1:29:10 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: MinorityRepublican

This activism was pushed in the Obama Era, no less, and of course Obama controls broadcast rights.


10 posted on 07/21/2026 1:30:29 PM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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I don't care a whit for the World Cup. However, this is a waste of the DOJ's time and money.
Some impoverished mud people got a free chance to watch their fellow simians prance around
like faeries for a couple hours. DOJ, we still have Antifa, Chinese espionage, drug cartels,
terrorists, fire bombers, and arsonists at the top of the "to do" list.

11 posted on 07/21/2026 1:53:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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#3: "Yeah I would be devastated and inconsolable if I couldn’t watch the women’s finals."

Me too. Especially if they take my suggestion to make it topless.

12 posted on 07/21/2026 1:56:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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13 posted on 07/21/2026 1:58:53 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

no time, money or motivation to arrest Epstein pedophiles - plenty of money to act as bill collector and enforcer for large multi-billion dollar corporations.

Kash Patel really hitting it out of the park....lol.


14 posted on 07/21/2026 1:59:09 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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They don’t have to ban me from watching. I didn’t watch the men either, excepting it was all over the news nets via scoring replays.

A defensive 1-0 match is fine if you’re emotionally invested in the teams; otherwise, kicking it around in the greater midfield area is pretty boring.


15 posted on 07/21/2026 2:05:07 PM PDT by citizen (All Bush-era RINOs have got to be primaried out.)
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16 posted on 07/21/2026 2:24:21 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701

“Free Media Heck Yeah”


17 posted on 07/21/2026 2:31:34 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Women’s nude volley ball should be thing


18 posted on 07/21/2026 3:02:01 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: z3n

They’re scratching their heads wondering why they don’t get paid as much as the men.


19 posted on 07/21/2026 3:50:27 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Magnum44

That reminds me of this.

Seinfeld in “Pulp Fiction”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1MBVXkQbWU


20 posted on 07/21/2026 6:43:46 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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