Hammer blow for pirates: Arcom brings down more than 300 illegal sports streaming sites

The Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) has just sent Google an impressive list of domain names to be neutralized. According to information from L’Informé, 650 URLs were notified to the American giant, either by dereferencing or by outright blocking. Once the duplicates are eliminated, at least 326 distinct sites are targeted. Among them are premium-iv.ovh, michalbak.online, f1livestream.xyz or even comfortv.com. Many IPTV services hackers also feature in this massive list.

This massive offensive is based on several recent judgments obtained by Canal+ and the Professional Football League. On May 7, 2025, the encrypted channel delisted around fifteen sites pirating the MotoGP. On July 18, it repeated the operation for Formula 1, this time by blocking around twenty sites via the alternative domain name systems managed by Google and Quad9. On September 18, the LFP obtained the delisting of 34 sites from Google and Microsoft Bing to protect the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 championships.

But how do we go from a few dozen sites to more than 300? The answer lies in a mechanism introduced by the law of October 25, 2021 relating to the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age. This text entrusts Arcom with the processing of bypass sites, these new addresses which had not been identified during the initial decision but which resume the video streams of the first blocked sites.

Rather than returning to court at the cost of a long and costly procedure, rights holders can now send the list of these new sites that they themselves have identified directly to the independent authority. After verification by its agents, Arcom can then request from the intermediaries parties to the judgment the extension of the restrictive measures against them. A judicial after-sales service which considerably speeds up the pace.

Nearly 80 addresses from this list had already been handed over to major virtual private network (VPN) providers in a previous wave. The scope of application of the 2021 law is deliberately broad: it aims “anyone likely to contribute” to remedy illicit retransmissions. Access providers such as Bouygues, Free, Orange and SFR were thus put in the loop, but also search enginesalternative domain name system managers like CloudFlare, and VPN providers such as NordVPN, Proton or Cyberghost.

Contacted by our colleagues, Google confirms that it complies with the dereferencing and blocking injunctions sent by Arcom. Canal+ and the LFP did not wish to comment.