The fan will pay a fine of £5 thousand for illegal stream

According to The Mirror, the boxing fan was fined £85,000 after his Ipad was used as a device to broadcast Sky Sports last April, featuring Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko for 4,250 people on Facebook.

34-year-old Craig Foster paid 19.95 euros to watch this fight at Wembley at home with friends. Foster claims that one of his friends took his iPad, connected Facebook Live, and organized the broadcast for everyone.

Sky was able to track Foster on the watermark of his account number, which appeared on the screen during the broadcast of the fight. Sky canceled his subscription - and wrote him a fine of 85 thousand pounds in connection with the loss of revenue from the sale of paid broadcast.

"I paid for boxing, I did not make any money on it. My iPad was connected to my Facebook account, and my friend made a live stream of the fight," Foster told The Mirror.

"I did not even think about it, and a few days later my subscription was closed. They require the names and addresses of all my friends who were with me that evening, but I'm not going to betray them. I said that I will take care of everything. They want to make me an example. I know that streaming is bad. I did not stop a friend, I just watched boxing. I'm the guy who drank a little with his friends. "

The law firm Foot Anstey LLP, representing Sky, invited Foster to pay £5,000 as legal costs or to stand trial and pay a fine in full.

The lawyers also demanded an apology for "illegal use of materials and redistribution of the television program."

"This is bad. I apologized and told them that we were drunk," Foster said.

Neil Parks of Foot Anstey commented on the incident as follows: "Mr. Foster broke the law. He acknowledged his offense, apologized and signed a legally binding agreement to pay Sky a fine of £5,000. "