Federal Court orders blocking of illegal live baseball streams

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The Federal Court ordered Tuesday that internet service providers block the IP addresses associated with alleged unauthorized restreamers of live baseball games exclusively owned by Rogers and Groupe TVA. The court also ordered the operators of the identified IP addresses to quit redistributing the signal of those games, after Rogers and Groupe TVA brought the action last month. The decision is just the latest dynamic blocking order that builds on the precedent set by the axing of illegal National Hockey League streams and the most recent World Cup soccer games, which carried the novelty that...