Agon has announced that they will be commencing legal action against chess24, chessbomb, ICC, and chessgames:
http://www.agonlimited.com/news/2016/3/12/agon-ltd-commences-legal-action-against-chess24-internetchessclub-chessgames-and-chessbomb-for-breaching-broadcast-restrictions
Good luck to them. Agon's actual broadcast is subject to copyright, but the moves of the games are not. If these sites only relay the moves which they get from watching Agon's broadcast, Agon will not have a legal leg to stand on. As to the denial of service attack claims, I hope they have proof (apparently they don't) that these entities actually perpetrated a denial of service attack. Maybe Agon's servers just weren't up to the task of servicing a billion chess fans.
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