Bad news for internet streams...

[Cyrus Riddle]

By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor


The week of NFL's Super Bowl, U.S. federal agents arrested a 28-year-old man who allegedly ran a string of illegal stream websites and seized 16 domain names.

The man, identified as Yonjo Quiroa, allegedly provided direct video access to NFL, NBA, NHL, WWE, and TNA events through nine of the 16 streaming websites seized.

Quiroa, who faces one count of criminal infringement of a copyright, was arrested after a U.S. Department of Homeland Security enforcement agent posing as a WWE employee set up a sting. According to Reuters, the agent arranged a meeting last week by offering to buy domain names from Quiroa, who allegedly responded by offering to "make a deal."

The seized websites include 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.

Quiroa operated his illegal stream websites from February 2010 to January 2012 out of his Comstock Park, Michigan home. He received "at least $13,000" from online advertisers to fund his operation.

Link: Report at Reuters.com .

I always went to first row for my streams...this sucks ass, I don't like paying for wrestling pay per views, especially with WWE's flux in quality.

 

[Fuji Vice]

There's other sites, but First Row was definitely one of the best. They cracked down like this a year ago and got rid of a bunch of streaming sites, better ones popped up after that and the same thing will happen again this time.

 

[Smart Marx]

There's other sites, but First Row was definitely one of the best. They cracked down like this a year ago and got rid of a bunch of streaming sites, better ones popped up after that and the same thing will happen again this time.

As long as those fucker leave BigEvents alone, I'm good. I couldn't make the live discussions without 'em!

 

[Cyrus Riddle]

I hope so...bad thing is that I can never find good ones on my own, I've always needed others to direct me lol.

 

[The Viper]

Oh man.

This sucks.

 

[Fuji Vice]

Maybe you should stop talking about them. What if big brother is watching Pulse?

 

[The Viper]

Maybe you should stop talking about them. What if big brother is watching Pulse?

Hmmmm.

Good point.

 

[Fuji Vice]

Come to think of it, big brother is definitely watching Pulse. How could he not want to check out my sexiness?

 

[Catfish Billy]

IF I MISS AGAINST ALL ODDS IMMA BE SOOOPER PISSED! AAAAARGH! .... just saying.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

Well we always have all of the UK streams. So I think were good. I never got FirstRowSports to work for me anyway.

 

[Fuji Vice]

I never got FirstRowSports to work for me anyway.

For some reason when I read this and looked at your avatar at the same time I laughed. I kind of envisioned Stallone with that grumpy face being upset that First Row didn't work for him.

Yeah, I'm weird.