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Triller filed a piracy lawsuit against an Instagram user who they say commented 'watched the Jake Paul fight for free' on their co-owner's page

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Triller Fight Club, the boxing event wing of the social media app, has continued filing lawsuits against online individuals who they say pirated one of their fights. 

On April 23, Triller Fight Club filed a lawsuit against eight websites and five YouTube channels in US District Court for the Central District of California for $100 million in damages. Triller claimed that these channels and sites illegally streamed the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren boxing match on April 18 and alleged copyright infringement, violations of the Federal Communications Act, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That suit was amended by United States District Court Judge Percy Anderson who labeled it as a "misjoinder" and had all but FilmDaily dropped as defendants.  

Two weeks later on May 7, Triller filed another lawsuit against channel h3h3 productions on YouTube for $50 million after their podcast showed a clip of the final round of the event. That case is still ongoing, with the latest development on June 3 being a Report on Filing of Copyright Action. 

Triller continued legal action with three separate lawsuits on May 27 in the United States District Court of California that were obtained by Insider. Triller filed these suits against Robiul Awal and Robiul Islam (who Triller claims are owners of Online2LiveStream.us), YouTube channel ItsLilBrandon and Canadian corporations Canada inc and Diglo inc alongside an individual named Nicolas Klivokiotis. Triller is alleging copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, violations of the Federal Communications Act, conversion, and violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in each of these suits.

On June 3, Triller filed a lawsuit against Matthew P. Space, who they claim owns the 2,200 subscriber YouTuber channel Eclipt Gaming. The complaint includes a screenshot of a livestream that shows that it had 257 views, with the suit saying the stream "has resulted in damages suffered by Plaintiff by stealing and diverting at least 300 unique viewers of the illegal and unauthorized viewings of the Broadcast." 

The most recent lawsuit Triller filed on June 11 alleges in the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio that Jerren Swords pirated the stream. According to the complaint obtained by Insider, Swords commented on co-owner of Triller's Instagram Ryan Kavanaugh, writing that he had "watched the Jake Paul fight for free" and "he can't sue me." Kavanuagh responded with "give me your real name and we can check about that" (Insider was unable to confirm these Instagram posts).  The lawsuit seeks damages up to $150,000. 

Space and Swords did not respond to a request for comment. Triller did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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