Triller grants \u201camnesty\u201d to YouTubers who illegally streamed Jake Paul vs Ben Askren Jake Paul\/UFC\/TrillerTriller Fight Club announced on Monday, April 26 that it\u2019s pursuing a $100 million lawsuit against several YouTubers and other websites for illegally streaming the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight on April 17. Illegal streams can be found for almost any event that\u2019s only available on network TV or behind a paywall, and Triller\u2019s latest Jake Paul fight on April 17 was no different. For those who didn\u2019t want to pay to watch the fight at home, a number of sites and even channels on YouTube were there to provide a free pirate stream, and now Triller is coming after those it thinks are responsible. In a statement, Ryan Kavanaugh, co-controlling shareholder of Triller said it was \u201cshocking\u201d that the event was allegedly rebroadcast incredibly easily by all of the named defendants, most of whom used YouTube to do it. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking to think a theft so grand can be done so blatantly and brazenly and with no remorse. There is zero difference between what they did and walking into a market stealing tons of a product and selling it at a discount in the parking lot,\u201d Kavanaugh wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s neither civilly nor criminally any different, and we are prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d According to Triller, there were more than 2 million illegal streams rebroadcasting the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight without permission, amounting to \u201chundreds of millions of dollars\u201d in lost revenue. \u201cThe good news is they [defendants] are not protected by VPN masking or other firewalls as their activities are criminal and grand theft,\u201d Kavanaugh added. \u201cSo we will ultimately find them and prevail not just for us but for content creators in general.\u201d Among the defendants named are sites like Online2Livestream, Crackstreamslive, Sports-Today, and others, including a YouTube channel known cryptically only as \u201cMike,\u201d which brazenly streamed the fight live right on YouTube as it was live. According to court documents, Triller is seeking in excess of $100 million from the sites and channels its names in the suit for lost revenue from the fight. Stick with Dexerto for all the latest details on this developing story as they happen. However, on May 3, Triller announced that it is granting one month amnesty to viewers who pirated the content, allowing them to pay the original $49.99 price before June 1. \u201cWe encourage anyone who pirated the event to visit the site before June 1, pay their $49.99 and receive a full and complete release from Triller to avoid further action,\u201d Triller\u2019s Head of Piracy, Matt St. Claire, stated. \u201cWe are taking this position because it is outright theft. It is no different than walking into a store and stealing a video game off the shelf. In the case of the offending sites, it\u2019s worse, because they also then resold it to many people, illegally profiting from work they do not own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Triller grants \u201camnesty\u201d to YouTubers who illegally streamed Jake Paul vs Ben Askren Jake Paul\/UFC\/TrillerTriller Fight Club announced on Monday, April 26 that it\u2019s pursuing a $100 million lawsuit against several YouTubers and other websites for illegally streaming the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight on April 17. Illegal streams can be found for almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}