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The web page has well more than a million visitors per day, and is listed among the 100 most well-liked web-sites in Spain with regards to visitors. This morning, nevertheless, guests were shocked by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “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 several reasons, not least since the website 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 produced this victory pointless.

With no receiving a notification or the selection to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized this morning.

“We haven't been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As using the prior seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they've not touched something,” Seoane stated.

Comparable to BitTorrent internet sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams which will currently be found online, and also carries links to .torrent files that are hosted on other web sites.

The web page is owned by a Spanish organization that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. Additionally, the web page will not be hosted within the US either. The roja directa only connection for the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

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

At the moment Rojadirecta displays exactly the same message from DOJ and ICE because the sites seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It can be expected that Rojadirecta is among the first of a new list of seized domains.

The message beneath is posted on Rojadirecta.org

The sports streaming and P2P link web page is currently looking for legal suggestions, both in Spain along with the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all signifies they have.

In spite of losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can nevertheless be accessed through rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly enough maintained by exactly the same corporation as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they've several other domains that are not controlled by US authorities or firms.

The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda with the US Government. Seizing a domain that 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 corporations.

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