***SPORTS PIRACY WEBSITES SEIZED***

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With the Super Bowl just four days away, U.S. prosecutors said they have seized 10 popular websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events on the Internet.

Prosecutors said the websites provided links to give users easy access to other sites that host pirated, copyrighted telecasts from the National Football League, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc and Ultimate Fighting Championship, which involves mixed martial arts.

Tuesday's seizures were justified because the websites were "used to commit and facilitate criminal copyright infringement and contain evidence of that crime," Daniel Brazier, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an affidavit.

The websites are atdhe.net, channelsurfing.net, firstrow.net, hq-streams.com, hq-streams.net, ilemi.com, iilemi.com, iilemii.com, rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org.

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