With more than 1.6 billion global visits across its 80 domain names over the last year, Streameast was easily the world's most popular illegal sports streaming platform. On Wednesday, however — just in time for the NFL season — Streameast suddenly shut down , just as the anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced that Streameast was no more. “Today, ACE scored a resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy: by taking down the largest illegal live sports platform anywhere,” ACE Chairman Charles Rivki said in a statement . “With this landmark action, we have put more points on the board for sports leagues, entertainment companies, and fans worldwide—and our global alliance will stay on the field as long as it takes to identify and target the biggest piracy rings across the globe.” This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. According to ACE, the group wor...