OT: Channelsurfing.net seized by feds
Heavy hand of the Man is at it again.... one of my favorite streaming sports sites, channelsurfing.net has been seized by the Feds as part of the new crackdown on unauthorized content distribution on the web. You can go to the website (www.channelsurfing.net) to see what a seized website looks like. thing is, channelsurfing.net didn't stream the broadcasts themselves, they were more an aggregator of links to different streaming broadcasts on many different sites. Guessing other us-based sites will soon be shut down as well. Might be well for Brian or mods to watch links regarding streaming broadcasts from being posted, lest some overzealous Columbia grad working for the federal prosecutors in NY who didn't get into Michigan Law decides to take some revenge.
February 10th, 2011 at 1:28 AM ^
thanks
February 9th, 2011 at 10:34 PM ^
Nooooooooooooooooooo !!! Chaos , Run Panic !
February 9th, 2011 at 10:35 PM ^
I would hate to see Brain risk all of the work he has done on this blog and get nickel-and-dimed by AOL/Time-Warner/Disney's lapdogs.
Whenever the entertainment industry thinks someone besides them is ripping off the artists, "due process" no longer applies. I would be all for a moratorium/ban on posting links here if it would help. Maybe those mgomembers in the legal profession could weigh in here.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:20 PM ^
because all they'd have to assert is that an ongoing illegal activity is occurring that no measures were taken to prevent. law prevents message board/site owners from being held responsible for the autonomous actions of users BUT a casual relationship can be determined rather easily.
example of such a loose, albeit not-worth-it association
ads make mgoblog a profit stream
posters with torrent/streaming sites create posts, include links in their signature
thus
mgoblog makes ad revenue profit via normal traffic and the illegal material available linked on this site
Boyz N Pahokee has been rather candid about not caring what the feds do and being willing to do whatever to keep it going in comments on the site, which doesn't help things much either.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:50 PM ^
Your pro-Brian sentiment is great, but we both know there is a 0.0% chance the feds will seize Mgoblog for users sharing stream links in comment posts 6 times a month. The sites seized were the biggest linkers to these streams on earth, with dozens (sometimes hundreds) of links a day. ICE is taking heat from some Congressmen for even taking those sites down without adequately considering speech issues and international comity (particularly with the Spanish site rojadeportes or whatever, which Spanish courts already OK'd).
And those sites are also back up, which has happened before when ICE does this, so I'm not sure what their long-term goal is (obviously Brian wouldn't want to risk this if there were any actual risk).
Also, to OP - bizarre anti-Columbia Law sentiment. Hi hater?
February 10th, 2011 at 5:42 PM ^
The federal government is probably lurking on MGoBlog to find out how they can use it to distribute vital information to MGoFieldAgents.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:55 PM ^
So magnus is gonna take down MGO because he links his blog on here. That's been his master plan all along. What a jerk!
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February 9th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
any chance that sidereel and all the megavideo links to non-sports will be taken down too?
February 9th, 2011 at 11:01 PM ^
I always love seeing the Homeland Security logos on these seizures. I figure if they have time to go after streaming sites, terrorism must not be a threat anymore and we can disband them. I'm sick of getting an old fashioned from the TSA everytime I fly.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:21 PM ^
Why? It's got liquor.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:41 PM ^
Liquor? I just met her!?
February 9th, 2011 at 11:42 PM ^
"I'm sick of getting an old fashioned (Missing Word?) from the TSA everytime I fly."
If it's a high five, is that such a bad thing?
February 9th, 2011 at 11:56 PM ^
there is no missing word..it's a south park reference
February 10th, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
Man, I'm so sleepy.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:04 PM ^
Our control and censoring of media is beginning to remind me a bit of China? Socialism wooo!
February 10th, 2011 at 10:07 AM ^
I understand the sentiment, but these sites do pretty blatantly break the copyright laws. Sure, i've used the sites when I've been unable to watch a sporting event either due to location (i.e. out of the country, at my desk at work, etc.), and I'm not even sure there is any real harm in allowing the sites, but did anyone ever really think that these sites were kosher?
If content providers want to fight them, even if some think it's ultimately stupid, that's their perogative. I think the recent push is more of a result of the booming legitimate online streaming industry. Disney doesn't want somebody watching a college football game on ADTHE when they could be watching that game on ESPN3. And frankly, I get that. Disney is the company spending the money to produce the program, they should reap the rewards.
Finally, China? It's exactly these types of protections that the west is desperately trying to get China to enforce.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:11 PM ^
+1 for this alone:
"lest some overzealous Columbia grad working for the federal prosecutors in NY who didn't get into Michigan Law decides to take some revenge."
February 9th, 2011 at 11:16 PM ^
being connected to any of the sites that provide torrents/streaming of Big Ten games is not safe for mgoblog, etc. even casual association isn't worth the risk with heavyhanded efforts like the ones discussed above.
February 9th, 2011 at 11:17 PM ^
the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
February 10th, 2011 at 2:49 AM ^
But you have heard of me
February 9th, 2011 at 11:21 PM ^
for about a month now....
February 9th, 2011 at 11:29 PM ^
Beeotch. I require free football games online. Government needs to stay out of my viewing pleasure.
February 10th, 2011 at 1:18 AM ^
in Russia?
February 10th, 2011 at 7:10 AM ^
It was seized a few days ago, this is old news.
By this time, I guess a mirror is up on another domain. Or you could use the alternate ATDHE domain. ;)
The man can take down as many links and domains as he wants, but they'll just pop up on another site. Maybe if companies embraced the internet and this new age today instead of living in the past, people wouldn't have to turn to piracy.
February 10th, 2011 at 7:23 AM ^
ATDHE also seized by DHS; has the same message. I tried to use it over the weekend and it was like that. Sucks, because I live in north Africa and this is my main way to get football (AFN doesn't show many Michigan games when they go 5-7, 7-6...).
February 10th, 2011 at 10:14 AM ^
February 10th, 2011 at 9:58 AM ^
Dont understand how rebroadcasting is bad for the networks. Its not like ads are omitted.
And why the fuck dont we have Spotify here yet!<{<!@P)(!@()!@
February 10th, 2011 at 2:14 PM ^
under copyright laws, and for broadcast networks, you can't retransmit w/o their consent.