UFC Demands Disclosure of Streaming Pirates' IP Addresses
UFC Demands Disclosure of Streaming Pirates' IP Addresses
Posted 07/26/2010 at 5:43pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Pay-per-view events are big business, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) isn't in the mood to share. After seeing their live events streamed on both Justin.tv and Ustream, the organization is going after both sites, presumably with a choke-hold of some sort. Well, more likely the subpoena they have obtained to force the disclosure of the infringing IP addresses will take care of everything without the need for physical violence.
UFC's parent company, Zuffa LLC claims that during an event on January 2, more than 36,000 viewers tuned into an illegal stream on Ustream and Justin.tv that originated from a single IP address. Six weeks later, the same IP address hosted a stream of a pay-per-view event for 78,000 fans. It is unclear if there are additional streamers involved in other incidents. Both streaming sites have been working to keep pirated content off their services, but it's a losing battle. Some automated content fingerprinting is in use, but content makers have to work closely with the sites; something that has not happened in the case of UFC.
The UFC is apparently only after individuals that uploaded the content, not those that watched it. It's unclear if the sites will be forced to hand over the information. Do you think Ustream and Junstin.tv should give in and release the data?
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Keith E. Whisman
July 27, 2010 at 8:59am
Just look at that picture.. How freaking gay is that? That is freaking gay. That man is raping the other man.. That is just sick.
I can't believe MaximumPC would allow that filth on it's website. Just disgusting. They had to cover the faces to hide the sick grins and bulging eyes.
I had no idea that Maximum PC was into displaying Gay porn. Just sick...
Not!!!!!
Just kidding... I had to make some kind of funny comment or I wouldn't be Keith E. Whisman
Jelson
July 27, 2010 at 2:08pm
Lmao............yeah thats the first thing I thought.
Oh, and they'll never be able to stop pirating, the wars already over, these are just pointless battles.
MrGeek
July 27, 2010 at 7:56am
PalTalk anyone? There are channels that all they do is stream pay per view sport events of any kind, including WWE wrestling, live for anyone to watch. So now you get to watch pay per view free while talking smack in the room....
PalTalk does not control the stream, users do. You can install fake webcam drivers that fool any video conferencing program so you can show video instead of live webcam.
kris79
July 27, 2010 at 5:39am
Wow! 36,000 people illegally downloaded it? I can see why the UFC is angry - maybe they coulda made an extra $10 from the one person who might have actually paid for it out of that bunch. On the other hand, maybe a few hundred fuzzy-headed teenyboppers can be sucked into buying this crap someday if they honestly liked what they saw, you know, when they get a JOB.
rseding91
July 26, 2010 at 11:17pm
HAH!, people actually care enough about this to pirate it?
I always thought wrestling/boxing was the sort of thing you turned on when you wanted a good laugh.
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July 26, 2010 at 9:15pm
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JohnP
July 26, 2010 at 7:18pm
So bringing down ONE streamer is going to solve all of streaming contents woes against pirated information. Yeah, one person may be hammered but there are myriad of ways to watch the contents only hours after the event using torrents.
UFC, will this actually accomplish anything, or are you jst willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawyers and spend months in ligitation to punish some teenager somewhere? RIAA found it was a costly way to run a business, throwing money at lawyers with nothing to show for it.
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