A soccer ball inside a stadium.

Law enforcement in Egypt partnered with the Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) anti-piracy unit Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (Ace) to target and close an online service that offered illegal access to live sports.

The service, called Livehd7, operated a network of streaming websites and online platforms that gave millions of users access to soccer matches from Major League Soccer (Mls), Serie A, Germany’s Bundesliga, France’s Ligue 1 and Portugal’s Primeira Liga, as well as top title matches like FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro and Euefa Nations League, and Conmebol Copa America.

The service logged an average of 17 million monthly visits from countries like the United States, Germany, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and France, officials with Ace said. Over the past year, 257 million web users have streamed some content from Livehd7, the organization said, though it wasn’t clear how that data was obtained or evaluated,...