Triller hunts down illegal streamers as they offer one month amnesty

Triller is giving illegal streamers a one month amnesty to “do the right thing,” as the company awaits to pursue legal action against everyone who illegally streamed the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren PPV.

The social media company, who recently ventured into boxing events, sent out a press release stating they have opened a website where anyone who illegally streamed the event can pay the full PPV price of $49.99 to avoid being added onto the ongoing lawsuit.

Matt St. Claire, Triller’s Head of Piracy said in a following statement that: ”Triller will pursue the full $150,000 penalty per person per instance for anyone who doesn’t do the right thing and pay before the deadline.” He continued, “VPN firewalls all have to comply and turn over the actual IP addresses of each person who stole the fight in discovery. We will be able to identify each and every person, VPN or not, as each stream has a unique fingerprint embedded in the content.”

In the lawsuit originally filed April 23rd in the US District Court of California, Triller takes aim at 11 sites and 100 unnamed people with 2 million illegal streams. The company claims the illegal streams have cost them upto $100 million in revenue.

Triller are clearly not playing around when it comes to being reimbursed for lost revenue as St. Claire stated, “It is no different than walking into a store and stealing a video game off the shelf. In the case of the offending sites, it’s worse, because they also then resold it to many people, illegally profiting from work they do not own.”

Jake Paul finished by Ben Askren in the very first round of the fight and the event received mixed reviews within the combat sports community. Despite the mixed reviews it still legally sold over $1 million worth of PPV’s, which from a business standpoint is definitely a success.

The newly launched website will be live until June 1st, giving any illegal streamers the opportunity to cough up the money and be removed from the case.