The man, Zack Bartel, is saying he paid the $99.99 fee to stream the fight in high-definition from a Showtime app, only to suffer through an unstable feed with poor resolution and numerous freezes. “To his extreme disappointment and frustration, plaintiff (and thousands of other consumers) quickly learned that defendant’s system was defective and unable to stream the Mayweather fight in HD as defendant had advertised,” the lawsuit said. It also includes many tweets by other frustrated would-be viewers who were complaining about the Showtime app. The lawsuit alleges that Showtime “rushed its pay-per-view streaming service to market, without securing enough networking bandwidth to support the number of subscribers who paid to watch the fight. He said that his company would provide refunds for people who purchased the fight through its app and Web client, saying, “For those that could not see the fight on those platforms, Showtime will issue a full refund.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 29, 2017 19:28 UTC