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LeBron James Dragged Into Streameast Shutdown After Allegedly Checking Out the Illegal Platform


Los Angeles Lakers basketball icon LeBron James has been caught up in the shutdown of one of the world's most notorious streaming piracy platforms.

Streameast — the globe's biggest illegal sports streaming platform — was shuttered in August as the result of a yearlong international probe by Egyptian law enforcement officials, according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a coalition of 50 media and entertainment organizations including Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix and Paramount, per The Athletic.

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Stunningly, ACE reported that the monster site was visited more than 1.6 billion times in the last year alone.

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"Dismantling Streameast is a major victory for everyone who invests in and relies on the live sports ecosystem," says Ed McCarthy, COO of DAZN Group. "This criminal operation was siphoning value from sports at every level and putting fans across the world at risk."

Site traffic reportedly averaged 136 million monthly visits in feeds originating from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and Germany, among other countries.

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LeBron was caught courtside at a Nike youth basketball tournament last year while catching a Dallas Mavericks vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game on the forbidden site. Many Streameast fans say the incident, which was caught on a YouTube clip, brought the site to the attention of the law enforcement officials who shut it down.

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"Tho ugh it may have led to the site's demise, it's still a bad look for LeBron to be utilitizing an illegal service for the whole world to see," says one concerned NBA insider.

And Charles Rivkin, chairman of ACE and chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), says: "ACE scored a resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy by taking down the largest illegal live sports platform anywhere."

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Larissa Knapp, the MPA's executive vice president and chief content protection officer, adds: "This action swiftly dismantled what was once the largest illegal sports streaming operation in the world, and I applaud the Egyptian authorities for their partnership."

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