Welcome to the homepage of popular sports streaming and p2p site
Rojadirecta.com. Why all the birdy logos and harsh words about going to prison? Well, it's a convoluted story, which began when a whole bunch of sports sites -- including
Rojadirecta -- were summarily seized by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, based on "probable cause to believe" they'd been involved in
copyright infringement. Awkwardly, the Spanish owners of this particular site had already been cleared of any wrongdoing by courts in Spain, but this counted for
nada because their .com URL was American. So, their one hope was to convince a US judge that the seizure violated the First Amendment and should be overturned. This case won support from freedom of speech activists like the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, but on Thursday it finally failed. The presiding judge ruled that no rights had been violated, because
Rojadirecta could easily set up shop at a non-US address and continue to function. Bad news indeed for the Spaniards -- maybe they should move to the UK, where due process takes a
whole lot longer.
US judge won't return seized URL to Rojadirecta.com, absolutamente no originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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