It was billed as the Fight of the Century, and everyone wanted to watch — even people with no intention of ponying up $89 for the HBO- and Showtime-produced pay-per-view of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s May 2, 2015 boxing match.
When several online sites announced plans to broadcast pirated streams of the fight, Showtime owner CBS Corp. tapped Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton to stop them. Partners Dennis Wilson and Larry McFarland took the novel approach of filing a copyright complaint and requesting a temporary restraining order against the anonymous sites days before any infringement occurred.
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