re: Mayweather-McGregor pirated by upward of 100 million viewers

I watched on Periscope just because it was available. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise much less paid to watch it.

Watched on periscope. Would not have bought other wise

Days of me paying for PPV fights are long over.

The ability of people to use social media and other tech to easily bypass Pay Per View is like when Napster hit the music biz and their high-priced CDs.

There is going to be some shakeout and adjustment. I think the whole PPV model will change in the next year or two.

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Because no one deserves to be paid 100 million dollars to participate in a fight.

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Why do you hate capitalism, commie?

If they charged like $5 bucks for it theyd make more money, just pay the boxers less. Mcgrehor was on welfare before so they could probably just pay him in beer. Like all you have to do to be a pro boxer is fight like a regular dude but weigh 112 pounds

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They shouldn't charge so fricking much.

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Looks like us and Canada were expected to subsidize the rest of the world.

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I'm pretty sure the people that pirated it were those unwilling to pay for it, or in other words, only willing to watch for free.

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100% of them?

Nah. There is some cost that is legitimate. Obviously, it's not all of the pirated streams. But, some percentage is lost revenue.

The only way to stop this is to prosecute it.

Pirate here. $100 for 30 mins of entertainment is a ripoff

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those two streams alone could cost the event more than $70.6 million.

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They paid Mayweather and McGregor a combined 300,000,000 for that fight.

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Just the viewership from those two streams alone could cost the event more than $70.6 million.

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That's not true unless you assume every one of those viewers would have paid for it if they couldn't pirate it. I doubt very many of them would have.