Piracy/Italy: closure of the illegal "Calcio" website by ACE in collaboration with DAZN

"The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leading anti-piracy coalition, in coordination with DAZN, has successfully shut down Calcio, an illicit live sports streaming website, following a coordinated investigation led by ACE and in collaboration with DAZN’s anti-piracy team. The Moldova-based operator of the service agreed to cease operations after being approached," announced the global antipiracy coalition on 08/09/2025.

The site has generated more than 123 million visits over the last 12 months to 134 domains, according to ACE, which added that more than 6 million monthly visits took place in Italy alone, making it "the most popular sports streaming website in the country." Among the competitions illegally streamed were the Serie A Enilive, the Premier League, the Bundesliga, LALIGA EA Sports, Ligue 1 McDonald's, UEFA club competitions, the NBA and Formula 1. In addition to Italy (80%), the traffic came mainly from Spain, the United States, Germany and France.

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