The much-anticipated face-off between boxing veteran Floyd Mayweather and wayward scrapper Conor McGregor is on course to be the highest grossing box office event ever but the shadow of piracy looms large over the event as almost 3m users tuned in live on illicit feeds across a plethora of sources.
Digital security company Irdeto counted 239 live-streams of the fight that reached 2.93 million people accumulatively reports Variety. Of these, 67 feeds were hosted on prominent piracy sites, the rest is spread out across platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and media streaming service favoured by pirates – Kodi.
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Source: The Drum
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