{"id":119988,"date":"2017-08-17T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119988"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:10:02","slug":"showtime-aims-to-shut-down-pirated-streams-of-the-money-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/119988-showtime-aims-to-shut-down-pirated-streams-of-the-money-fight","title":{"rendered":"Showtime aims to shut down pirated streams of The Money Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has filed a lawsuit in California seeking a pre-emptive injunction against 40 websites to prevent them from streaming the\u00a0Mayweather vs McGregor fight,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/showtime-seeks-injunction-to-stop-mayweather-v-mcgregor-piracy-170816\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it has extensive experience in preventing streaming sites from showing its content without authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes sending cease and desist demands to LiveStreamHDQ in response to its unauthorised live streaming of the fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao,\u201d said Showtime.<\/p>\n<p>LiveStreamHDQ is involved in the operation of at least 41 sites that have been set up to target people looking for a way to watch the upcoming fight without paying, it said<\/p>\n<p>The fight will be offered as a pay-per-view event for between $89.95 and $99.95 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/222095-the-money-fight-mayweather-vs-mcgregor-coming-to-supersport.html\">the fight will be aired live on SuperSport<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The fight will also be shown on\u00a0Showmax later in the day, along with DStv Catch Up.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/224566-supersport-has-no-plans-for-pay-per-view-events.html\">SuperSport has no plans for pay-per-view events<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has filed a lawsuit in California seeking a pre-emptive injunction against 40 websites to prevent them from streaming the\u00a0Mayweather vs McGregor fight,\u00a0TorrentFreak reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24936,101,24938],"class_list":["post-119988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-money-fight","tag-piracy","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}