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The web page has nicely more than a million visitors each day, and is listed amongst the 100 most well-known sites in Spain when it comes to website traffic. This morning, nonetheless, visitors had been shocked by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the earlier “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 quite a few reasons, not least since the web page 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 made this victory pointless.

With out receiving a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized this morning.

“We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As with the preceding seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they've not touched anything,” Seoane mentioned.

Similar to BitTorrent websites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that can currently be discovered on the web, and also carries links to .torrent files that are hosted on other sites.

The website is owned by a Spanish firm that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Furthermore, the web page will not be hosted inside the US either. The roja directa only connection towards the US is the fact that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

This indirect connection for the US makes the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are entirely despising the Spanish justice process and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

In the moment Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE because the web sites seized last year, which includes Torrent-Finder. It is actually expected that Rojadirecta is one of the 1st of a new list of seized domains.

The message below is posted on Rojadirecta.org

The sports streaming and P2P link website is at the moment looking for legal assistance, each in Spain as well as the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all indicates they've.

Despite losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can nevertheless be accessed by way of rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly sufficient maintained by the identical business as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they have several other domains which are not controlled by US authorities or firms.

The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda in the US Government. Seizing a domain that has been particularly declared to operate legally in other nations will not appear to become an obstacle. In this light, one has to wonder if generic domain names should be controlled exclusively by US companies.

Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his web page was seized at the same time. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other web pages and in no way hosted any copyrighted material on its servers ver futbol .