Foxtel and Facebook prepare to shut down rogue Mayweather-McGregor fight streams
Social media services have signalled that they will take a harder line on unauthorised streaming of this weekend’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor than they did in the much-pirated battle between Anthony Mundine and Danny Green in February.
Mumbrella understands that Foxtel will for the first time tap into new rights-protection offerings provided by Facebook to shut down individuals who attempt to rebroadcast streams of Sunday morning’s fight.
The Mayweather-McGregor clash is set to break viewing records
“Facebook takes intellectual property rights seriously,” a Facebook spokesperson told Mumbrella. “We have robust measures in place to help protect intellectual property rights including reporting tools, IP policies, Audible Magic and Rights Manager.”
Lol
Nothing like a couple of billion dollar corporations grandstanding that they are going to control or shut down the pirates to get the pirates creative blood boiling
Should be interesting
Nope.
That’s not how you fix a dead business model.
Pity it also blocked me uploading a 9 second video of my 2 yo rocking out to ‘teen spirit’ in back of car (flagged for using audio from fight…)
I guess it was a blanket block of any audio from the broadcast..
A quick upload to YouTube and shared link later…
Why do we pay $60 for the privilege here in Australia and yet my wife’s family watches on free to air television in Indonesia, we’re constantly ripped off here.