Law Enforcement Shuts Down Pirate Streaming Network Streameast

Red Dog Security

08 Sep 2025 — 2 min read

Egyptian authorities, working with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), announced they have dismantled Streameast—described as the world’s largest illegal sports streaming network. Two alleged operators have been arrested.

A Giant in Pirate Streaming

Founded in 2018, Streameast offered free, ad-supported access to HD content from licensed broadcasters. According to ACE, the platform controlled 80 domains that drew 136 million monthly visits. In 2024 alone, it recorded 1.6 billion visits, with heavy traffic from the United States, Canada, the UK, the Philippines, and Germany.

The site streamed matches from nearly every major football league—England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Italy’s Serie A, Germany’s Bundesliga, France’s Ligue 1, Portugal’s Primeira Liga, and Major League Soccer in the U.S. Coverage also extended to international competitions such as the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro, Nations League, Copa América, the Champions League, and the Europa League.

Streameast’s offerings went far beyond football. It broadcast major American sports including the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB, along with pay-per-view events for boxing, mixed martial arts, Formula 1, and MotoGP.

The Takedown

Signs of disruption emerged last week, when Reddit users reported that streams and chats were failing to load. Soon after, ACE confirmed that Egyptian law enforcement had intervened.

“The liquidation of Streameast is a major victory for everyone who invests in and depends on the live sports broadcasting ecosystem,” ACE said in a statement. “This criminal operation siphoned revenue from sports at all levels and put fans around the world at risk.”

According to The New York Times, police in Egypt’s Giza governorate arrested two suspects and seized laptops, smartphones, cash, and multiple bank cards. Investigators also traced the operation to a UAE-based shell company allegedly used since 2010 to launder advertising revenue of $6.2 million, plus an additional $200,000 in cryptocurrency.

A Twist in the Story

Eighty Streameast-linked domains now redirect visitors to ACE’s “Watch Legally” portal, which promotes licensed platforms. But reporting from TorrentFreak suggests the crackdown may have primarily targeted a web of clone domains, not the original Streameast site itself.

These clones, which imitated the Streameast brand, were said to generate even more traffic than the original platform. Representatives claiming to speak for Streameast distanced themselves from the takedown, saying they had no connection to the Egyptian-based sites and remarking: “We are not even Egyptian.”

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