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Pirates who illegally streamed Jake Paul v Ben Askren targeted in lawsuit

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Re: Pirates who illegally streamed Jake Paul v Ben Askren targeted in lawsuit

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Can they actually go after any of these entities? Seems like at this point it's pretty trivial to set up a website which proxies manifest files and injects DRM keys directly...

Good luck, but I'd assume these folks are all in non extradition countries, or have covered their tracks pretty well...

Re: Pirates who illegally streamed Jake Paul v Ben Askren targeted in lawsuit

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Question to anyone that understands the legal 'play' here: is it the thing to say that it cost them 2,000,000 paying (I assume) streams, which feels ridiculously high? And then it gets bargained down or something?

Because it seems a lot like the "you pirated my album/film instead of buying it" - whereas the reality of it is probably more like a high percentage just wouldn't have bothered - a passing interest/opportunity that piracy facilitated.

Re: Pirates who illegally streamed Jake Paul v Ben Askren targeted in lawsuit

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Triller never seizes to entertain with the wild stunts they're trying to pull to pivot their business Imagine if this was planned out. "Yeah let's host an event that will be pirated, and then sue the piraters to make it profitable"

Prenda Law tried that approach, it didn't turn out well for them
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