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The site has well over a million guests each day, and is listed among the 100 most common web sites in Spain when it comes to traffic. This morning, however, guests were shocked by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the preceding �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 uncommon target for several causes, not least since the web page has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site�s owners have previously fought a 3 year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has created this victory pointless.

Without having receiving a notification or the solution to defend themselves, the site�s domain was seized this morning.

�We have not been notified,� Rojadirecta�s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As with all the previous seizures the domain registrar was bypassed inside the seizure. �According to Go Daddy they have not touched something,� Seoane mentioned.

Equivalent to BitTorrent websites, Rojadirecta does not host any copyrighted material. As an alternative, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams which will already be identified on the web, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other websites.

The website is owned by a Spanish firm that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Moreover, the internet site is just not hosted in the US either. The roja directa only connection for the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US business.

This indirect connection towards the US tends to make the seizure a dubious action, based on Rojadirecta�s owner. �In our opinion the US authorities are completely despising the Spanish justice process and sovereignty,� Seoane told TorrentFreak.

At the moment Rojadirecta displays the identical message from DOJ and ICE as the web sites seized last year, such as Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is among the initially of a new list of seized domains.

The message below is posted on Rojadirecta.org

The sports streaming and P2P link website is at present in search of legal assistance, both in Spain along with the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all indicates they have.

In spite of losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can nonetheless be accessed through rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly sufficient maintained by the exact same business because the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they've many other domains that happen to be not controlled by US authorities or businesses.

The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda from the US Government. Seizing a domain which has been specifically declared to operate legally in other countries will not seem to be an obstacle. In this light, one particular has to wonder if generic domain names should be controlled exclusively by US providers.

Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his site was seized also. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other websites and by no means hosted any copyrighted material on its servers ver futbol.