Duco Events boss Dean Lonergan vowed to bill them up to tens of thousands of dollars, labelling them "complete lowlife s***heads". Photo / Doug Sherring
Almost a month after vowing to hunt down the people who illegally streamed Joseph Parker's most recent boxing bout on the internet, event promoters have still to deliver a knock-out blow to those responsible.
The fight between Parker and Carlos Takam at Manukau on May 21 was viewed more than
100,000 times on Facebook as the action was live-streamed on social media and re-broadcast unlawfully by filming Sky TV's $49.99 coverage of the match.
In the aftermath, Duco Events boss Dean Lonergan vowed to bill them up to tens of thousands of dollars, labelling them "complete lowlife s***heads".
"We'll be chasing the people who did the re-streaming, they're not hard to identify with screenshots of everyone who [did] it, and some of them might be liable of up to $1 million if they had 21,000 streamers," he said.
"They're not the smartest people on the planet, it's a blatant breach of our copyright, we will be pursuing it."
