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ACE, UEFA, and Mexico Chase PirloTV’s 950-Million-Visit Piracy Network
news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak • 2 days ago • 3 minutes
PirloTV and Rojadirecta are popular piracy brands with a loyal audience across Latin America, offering free, ad-supported sports streams
For millions of sports fans in the region, these are the go-to sites to enjoy live sports, including the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League matches.
Rightsholders have been well-aware of the operations and have tried to counter them on several occasions. Earlier this year, for example, UEFA obtained a site blocking order in India that ordered ISPs to block pirlotv2.pl, rojadirectaenvivo.pl, and many others.
This order also required domain registrars disable the domain names. While some complied with this order, several domains remained available. However, following a recent enforcement operation, some of these gaps were addressed.
44 ‘PirloTV’ Domains Targeted
Some domain names that initially stayed online have now been targeted in a new enforcement action. This includes pirlotv3.pl, rojadirectaenvivo.pl, and elitegoltv.pl. These are now under control of the MPA, pointing to the following ACE banner.
Yesterday, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment , together with UEFA and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), took credit for a major ‘disruption’ action targeting the Mexican ‘PirloTV’ piracy ring.
According to the announcement, the 44 targeted domains attracted more than 950 million visits per year, including approximately 230 million from Mexico alone. The network’s strongest audiences were in Mexico and Colombia, with significant traffic also coming from Spain and the United States.
The press release mentions no domain names, but it does reference PirloTV, which likely means that the aforementioned domain names were part of this sweep.
Mexico’s First ACE Operation
The action is the first enforcement operation carried out under a memorandum of understanding between ACE and Mexico’s IMPI , which was signed in December 2025.
Under the agreement, IMPI and ACE committed to exchange intelligence on pirate streaming operations and coordinate enforcement actions across the region. The PirloTV operation is its first public output.
“This operation demonstrates the power of collaboration between ACE, UEFA, key industry stakeholders and government partners to protect the creative economy and combat large-scale digital piracy,” said Larissa Knapp, MPA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Content Protection Officer.
UEFA joined ACE as a member in October 2025, and the two organizations have since worked closely on enforcement, including the Indian domain blocking operation we referenced earlier.
New Domains Surfaced Quickly
This action already took place last month, before the UEFA Champions League final. The press release doesn’t explain why it was made public weeks after, but it is possible that some domain names still had to be properly secured.
It’s also worth noting that ACE’s press release doesn’t mention any enforcement actions against the operators. Instead, it refers to the action as a domain name “disruption”. However, disruption rarely means the end on the story.
This type of wordage suggests that the operators have not necessarily been stopped. That could also explain why several new PirloTV and RojaDirecta domain names emerged recently.
For example, in May a new pirlotvplay.pl surfaced, which later started to redirect to pirlotvplay.dev, which is live and fully operational at the time of writing.
The site carries standard PirloTV branding and is serving today’s sports schedule, including World Cup matches. Interestingly, the canonical URL points to rojadirectahd.vip, which points to a broader piracy network structure.
Whether these new domains are directly linked to the operation ACE targeted is unknown. In any case, there are dozens of copycat sites operating under the PirloTV and RojaDirecta brand names. Most of these are opportunistic clones, trying to capture search traffic, rather than the same operation.
While the recent enforcement action has not taken the operators out of action, it likely cost them significant traffic and revenue. Whether ACE and IMPI will pursue the people behind the network, besides these domains, remains to be seen.
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