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The post No one should be surprised that pirates hijacked the Logan Paul/KSI boxing match on Twitch appeared first on BardTech . Over the weekend, pirates made off with millions in potential YouTube revenues by hijacking the  live-streams of its pay-per-view “boxing” match between YouTube celebrities Logan Paul and KSI and broadcasting them on the rival streaming platform Twitch. The theft represents a pretty bold move in the continuing cat-and-mouse game between rival entertainment platforms Twitch (for live streaming) and YouTube (for pretty much everything else in the world of user-generated video). It also shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Pirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube’s pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match For Twitch, the case of the pirated content is less a mystery worthy of the Hardy Boys and more a simple case of history repeating . Back in the halcyon days of live-streaming, when Twitch was a young upstart service known as Justin.tv (and we...

The post Pirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube’s pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match appeared first on BardTech . Today, there was a little bit of a skirmish between two professional YouTubers. Our dear old friend Logan Paul and KSI had an actual boxing match at the Manchester Arena where 15,000 tickets were sold (!!!!!!!!) for an event that ultimately ended in a draw and vows for a rematch. The action onstage wasn’t the only place where viewers could get a look into the action, there was a $10 pay-per-view stream on YouTube, but more people seemed to end up watching pirated streams on Twitch with boxing fight streams reaching over a million concurrent users at one point. Streams also popped up on Twitter-owned Periscope and there were a few unofficial streams popping up on YouTube as well. There is now over 2 million concurrent viewers for the KSI Logan Paul fight. 800,000 on the official YouTube stream that cost $10 to watch, and 1.2 million watching for free on Twitch. #...