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A good example is the 3pm soccer games in England which aren’t shown on UK TV due to an old law designed to keep stadiums full. €œThen people decide to watch the online streams. So not just the big sports/leagues, but also for smaller events. In many countries there are no options to watch specific sports events and competitions. €œPeople want to subscribe to some games, some PPV events, and don’t want long contracts. The Leagues or competitions often don’t provide the right options for people to watch games in a legal way, which is also what we’ve seen from many replies on Twitter and Facebook,†Wiziwig explain.
Many sports events, and many games, aren’t available worldwide. €œWe’ve seen in the past several years that people don’t get the right options to watch the sports and games they want to watch. These, Wiziwig’s operators say, wouldn’t even exist if more effort was put into getting official services to consumers. But even though Wiziwig is no more, other sites are bound to try and fill the gap the portal has left in the market. When all things were considered (Wiziwig’s Twitter account was shutdown by a complaint in December) the team felt that the timing was right to call it a day. That was followed by a September raid on the operator of the Coolsport streaming service. In April the operator of sports streaming site was arrested by officers from the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. That also applied to several other links.â€Īside from changes in Spanish law where the site was based, Wiziwig also reminded us of two serious events in the UK earlier in the year. If we didn’t add them they were working all game long, while people could find them easily in Veetle. €œSame applied with Veetle links, as when those previously appeared on Wiziwig they were quickly taken down. The idea that the soccer league had been using Wiziwig to find streams and have them taken down at source was confirmed when matches streamed from other sources also remained up. On Thursday all Sopcast channels kept working all day, without any been taking down during the early kickoff, 3pm game and late game. €œIf we added a Sopcast link for a game in the Premier League, then quickly that link was made inaccessible. €œWhat we noticed Thursday, and that’s what we’ve always been thinking, is that the Premier League has only been focusing on Wiziwig lately to take down streams, like those from Sopcast for example,†Wiziwig told us.
New Year’s Day is a traditionally big date for UK soccer so coinciding with the first day of Wiziwig downtime, the site’s operators stood back and watched what happened.
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Interestingly it’s what didn’t happen on the site’s first day offline that topped the discussion.Īmong dozens of other sports, Wiziwig carried links to live soccer games and as a result became somewhat of a magnet for companies such as the UK’s Premier League. In the wake of the closure TorrentFreak caught up with the operators of this hugely popular site to find out about events leading up to its shutdown. Citing changes in Spanish law, Wiziwig had been forced to close just hours earlier. But the popularity wasn’t based on good news. On Thursday the term ‘wiziwig’ was the 8th most popular search on .uk, ahead of official sports broadcaster BT Sport. The site is ranked #1,546 worlwide by Alexa and is the 239th most-popular site in the UK. Until our report yesterday it’s likely that Wiziwig, a streaming portal covering just about every spectator sport around, had flown under the radars of many readers. If only sports companies and broadcasters got their act together and fulfilled consumer demand, sites such as Wiziwig would never exist. TorrentFreak caught up with the site's operators who told us a now familiar story.
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PLEASE NOTE: We would never recommend that you access illegal, live streams which show copyrighted material such as Premier League football - most of these live streams appear to be free, but will direct you to suspicious browser extensions, malware or fake movie sign ups that will infect your device and ask for credit card details (this is how the live streaming sites make their money).Wiziwig, one of the world's largest streaming sports portals, shut down this week to the dismay of millions of fans.