Showtime Suing to Block Pirating of Mayweather-McGregor Fight
Anticipating piracy of its pay-per-view broadcast of the Aug. 26 boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, Showtime is suing an array of John Doe defendants who allegedly operate livestreaming site LiveStreamHDQ and 41 affiliated websites that apparently plan…
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to pirate the broadcast. In a lawsuit (in Pacer) filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Showtime asked for a temporary restraining order and injunctions prohibiting the sites from making the fight available for streaming. Mayweathervsmcgregor.livestreamhdq.com on Thursday had a disclaimer that it existed for information purposes only and that it "will not stream any videos live here."