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I found this a great read, insight into the innerworkings of the Dream Match. Bob Arum and O. dela Hoya business rivalry, and etc... invest 15 minutes of your time, as it is long, but will definitely make you read till the very last lines.
De La Hoya-Pacquiao and the Business of Boxing
A bit about all us criminal stream watchers from the srticle :
Pavlik-Hopkins on October 18th and Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr on November 8th were back-to-back pay-per-view disasters that averaged roughly 200,000 buys. Part of the problem was the slumping economy. And part of the problem was piracy.
Internet piracy has evolved in recent years from delayed “resampling” to the live streaming of pay-per-view fights. Host sites post URLs that offer one-click access to content free of charge. Under the Federal Communications Act, a host site is required to have a “takedown” tool to deal with illegal content. But it takes time to effectively utilize the tool, and the law offers “safe harbor” to host sites as long as a takedown tool is in place.
For Calzaghe-Jones, HBO had forty “takedowns” on one site alone (Justin.tv). And more significantly, new sites sprang up on fight night like mushrooms in the dark.
HBO hired two outside companies to combat Internet piracy as it related to De La Hoya-Pacquiao. During fight week, a command center monitored sites that it thought would facilitate theft. On fight night, the center sought to shut down sites that illegally showed the pay-per-view card. But it was clear that Internet pay-per-view piracy had caught up with digital technology.