Türkiye-U.S. in the third game of the World Cup group stage finished with a combined 24.4 million viewers across Telemundo and Fox, marking the second-best soccer audience ever on U.S. airwaves...

CUT OFF: THE ATHLETIC’s Matt Slater notes “nearly 1,400 illegal World Cup streaming sites have had their advertising revenue cut off as part of the wider fight against digital piracy.” The move to deprive the pirates of ad dollars has been led by the Trustworthy Accountability Group, a non-profit created by the global ad industry to fight crime. It comes less than a week after the U.S. Department of Justice “seized nearly 400 sites that were streaming pirated World Cup content as part of its ‘Operation Offsides’ campaign” (THE ATHLETIC, 6/30).

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