Illegal live streaming website offering links to big broadcasters and their content
Hesgoal is a service which provides links to live streams of some of the biggest sporting events, including football. It remains one of the most well known brands in the world of illegal football live streaming and several different websites are currently operating under different versions of the Hesgoal domain.
One of those domains recently declared that it would no longer be distributing streams of English Premier League and UEFA club matches via two statements on its website. The news will have shocked and disappointed the many users previously visiting this domain to view this copyright protected content.
However, another domain using the name Hesgoal is still offering such streams via its 24/7 Live Sports Channel page. This section of the site includes all day live streams of Sky Sports and BT Sport channels, including at times when matches from the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League are being broadcast.
The 24/7 page on this particular Hesgoal domain provides round the clock coverage of the following channels: Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football, BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and BT Sport 3. It also hosts live stream links to other sports networks like NBC Sports and Sport TV.
As the club season has finished, it is unclear whether they are hosting specific pages for Premier League and UEFA matches or simply hosting the 24/7 channel coverage. Either way, with those channels on there, users would be able to tune in and watch this content in real time.
It is also unknown to what extent the different Hesgoal domains are connected. With one site having released statements declaring their desire to stop hosting content from the Premier League and UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League, in which they promise to no longer distribute this copyright protected content, perhaps the same decision could be on the horizon at the start of next season for this other site.
Hesgoal remains an extremely popular search term for football fans looking for free live streams, but only certain versions of this domain are providing such content.
Unlike the previous domain which apologised to rights holders for redistributing those matches, this Hesgoal site actually has a dedicated DMCA page, in which it argues that it is simply sharing links hosted elsewhere, and that any copyright breach should be taken up with the "appropriate media file owners or hosters".
The DMCA page may be covering Hesgoal's back in this case as the site continues to host 24/7 coverage of Sky Sports and BT Sport, as yet without being taken down.
Only time will tell how this particular Hesgoal domain will deal with illegal live streams of Premier League and UEFA matches going into next season.
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