As Pay-Per-View orders started to fail last night — nearly every operator from Time Warner Cable and Charter to DirecTV saw significant outages — the illegal Periscope and Meerkat streams started popping up. At any one moment, thousands were tuned in each separate stream, whether it was from someone’s apartment in Barcelona or a house party in Indianapolis. If you wanted, you could even get a ring-side view thanks to an attendee who streamed live from a pricey seat in the arena.
Source: Periscope made it easy to watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight for free | The Verge