Showtime faces a class action lawsuit from people who watched the digital stream of the Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregorpay-per-view fight.
Fans paid 100 dollars for the stream, but then complained of grainy video, errors and continuous buffering. That might be bearable for a baseball game, but not a boxing match.
Zack Bartel is leading the legal fight. He accused Showtime of “intentionally misrepresenting the quality of video and knowingly failing to disclose that its system was defective.” In return, he asking that each person participating in the class action gets 200 dollars in damages, or twice what they paid for the fight itself. A full refund and another 100 dollars for the "emotional trauma" of missing the fight. (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Periscope became a Twitter trend during the fight.
- Social media helped fight fans steal illegal streams of the pay-per-view. Many of those Periscopes streamed in a foreign language.