Blackout! Popular streaming sites seized by government

Turf Show Times ^ | Feb 1, 2011 | VanRam

[unixfox]

So...when will they go after the ILLEGALS?

I guess this is MUCH more important.

[Uncle Ike]

FWIW, HULU.com went ‘down’ over an hour ago.....

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

AMEN! Plenty of time for these penny-ante games, but 30 million illegals they can’t even see, let alone do anything about.

[taxtruth]

The NFL is just plain GREEDY and yes I will never buy any tickets from these con artist.No Celtics game tonite thanks to the government and the sucky nfl crooks.Forget about the suckerbowl we had tickets for because we sold them.

[aft_lizard]

No it didn’t. Hulu is a legal streaming site used by television networks.

[aft_lizard]

Hulu is a legal streaming site used by television networks.

[Electric Graffiti]

Interesting.....I was just using Channelsurfing.net last night to get updates on Egypt.

They have all the cable news sites and most sports channels streamed from different hosts.

What’s next?.......the NY TIMES online for collaborating with Wikileaks. Yeah right.

I’m starting to get that hard tyranny feeling.

[Repeal 16-17]

So Homeland Security won't stop the Mexican Invasion, is meaningless regarding fighting terrorism (unless airport gropings and naked pictures of passengers count as fighting terrorism), but has the time to shutdown website that are streaming sports.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a warning from the federal government: behave or the Internet will be shutdown.

[don-o]

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[Electric Graffiti]

How is this different from the Government determining that Fox News is broadcasting illegal content and shutting them down?

[nascarnation]

The NFL has a lot of influence in Washington.
Heck the Steelers owner gave Obama so much money he got made an ambassador.
So you can understand that anything undercutting their profitability (such as bypassing their tv deals) is going to get a bunch of legal attention.

[Repeal 16-17]

How is this different from the Government determining that Fox News is broadcasting illegal content and shutting them down?

It's different only in magnitude of importance.

[mrsmith]

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Is there any LEGAL -not free- stream of the super bowl?
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(I’d just discovered adthe, darn it, a good site for finding legal streams too )

[Electric Graffiti]

From a legal standpoint, I’m really quite curious.

Can they seize private property without due process?

Rhetorical question. They’re doing it. How far are they going to push it?

They could seize 10,000 conservative site’s domain names and make them go dark overnight. The State Run Media would no doubt ignore the story.

[exist]

just went to atdhe.net still up.

[taxtruth]

Rough day for NFL fans. First, a ruling gives the league and owners much better positioning at the bargaining table by ruling that the lockout insurance is legit, and now two popular online video streaming sites have been seized by the U.S. Government.

This is what greedy people do in the sports world known as the nfl along with government/the mafia x 10 to be even greedier while taxpayers pay for these stadiums.Taxpayers should never fund any sports stadium and on top of that these crooks charge 9.00USD for a hotdog or beer.CROOKS!

[2111USMC]

I just went there and the page says the site has been seized by ICE.

[tbw2]

Shutting down all the minor but numerous streaming sites prevents mainstream "streaming" sites from instantly flipping over to the minors if the major one is shut down.

By shutting down the little ones, it prevents the big ones from having fallback ways to get the word out.

This may be the first step to a kill control on the internet - only government approved streaming sites on the internet.

[taxtruth]

It’s down via AT&T/government rat/ here.