‘March Badness’: Promotion says PPV pirates will be caught
Check back often this evening after 9 p.m. ET for updates from the Roy Jones Jr. boxing/MMA card in Pensacola, Florida. Jones Jr. faces Omar Sheika in the main event. MMA fights include Bobby Lashley against Jason Guida while two more heavyweights collide in Jeff Monson and Roy Nelson.
For those who generally watch on the internet by some other the means aside from paying for the pay-per-view, Square Ring Promotions sent out this threatening email earlier in the day:
Square Ring Promotions intends to prosecute to the fullest extent of our legal rights Internet piracy and have engaged a firm in the United Kingdom that has the technology to track server and P2P pirates. This technology also permits Square Ring Promotions to identify individual ISP addresses of persons who have illegally pirated the event right into their own homes. We have also engaged a firm of specialist piracy attorneys who intend to pursue our legal remedies, at law and in equity, against these pirates.
With a retail price of $29.95 in the US and Canada and $9.95 in other countries on Maxboxing.com and Secondsout.com, it will now simply not be worth the risk of pirating this Event on the Internet. We fully intend to go after the companies that aid and abet this type of piracy.
This is an interesting development from Square Ring. If true, it makes one wonder why HBO PPV and the UFC haven’t been more vigilant in stopping hundred of thousands of viewers who illegally pilfer their shows on the web. CBS may want to find about this technology as well with similar numbers grabbing multiple feeds of the NCAA tournament this weekend.
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