Rojadirecta’s defense was always rooted in the technicalities of early internet law. The site argued that it was a search engine, akin to Google. It indexed links available on the open web. If a user uploaded a copyrighted stream to a third-party hosting site, Rojadirecta claimed it was not liable for merely pointing to it.
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Founded in 2005, Rojadirecta.com is a prominent, yet contentious, sports streaming directory that provides links to peer-to-peer (P2P) broadcasts, facing two decades of legal disputes in the US and Spain. Following a 2024 ruling, operator Igor Seoane and his company, Puerto 80 Projects, were ordered to pay over €31 million in damages for violating intellectual property rights. Read the full story at SVGEurope.org . Following a 2024 ruling, operator Igor Seoane and
: In 2022, a Spanish court sentenced Seoane to two years in prison and ordered millions in fines for "crimes against intellectual property."