Triller, Suing for Boxing Piracy, Offers Amnesty -- for $50

Video-based social media platform Triller, which is suing an array of sites and YouTube channel operators for allegedly pirating a stream or MVPD broadcast of the Jake Paul/Ben Askren boxing match to which it owned the rights, is offering amnesty at $50 per viewer. It said June 1 is the deadline for people who watched via a pirated signal but weren't involved in the sale or distribution to be "eligible to receive a one-time settlement and release for their unlawful acts." It set up a website for registering and making payments. Triller in a copyright infringement complaint last month (in Pacer, docket 21-cv-03502) in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said the pirating of the April 17 bout cost it upward of 2 million views, and sought damages in excess of $100 million. The defendants include Filmdaily.com, Accesstvpro.co, Online2livestream.us, Crackstreamslive.com, Sports-today.club, My-sports.club, Bilasport.com, Trendy Clips, Eclipt Gaming, ItsLilBrandon, the H3 Podcast and H3H3 Productions. In a motion Wednesday, it asked for expedited discovery so it could serve subpoenas on online platforms including Google's YouTube to discover defendants' identities.