US judge won’t return seized URL to Rojadirecta.com, absolutamente no

Welcome to the homepage of popular sports streaming and p2p site Rojadirecta.com. Why all of the birdy logos and cruel words about going to prison? Well, it is a convoluted story, which began when hundreds of sports sites — including Rojadirecta — were summarily seized by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to “probable cause to believe” they’d been all in favour of copyright infringement . Awkwardly, the Spanish owners of this actual 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 primary Amendment and may be overturned. This example won support from freedom of speech activists just like the Electronic Frontier Foundation , but on Thursday it finally failed. The presiding judge ruled that no rights were violated, because Rojadirecta could easily installation shop at a non-US address and continue to operate. Bad news indeed for the Spaniards — maybe they must move to the united kingdom, where due process takes a good deal longer .

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