Dana White is Going to Shut Illegal Streams THE FUCK DOWN

[xtremebadass]

The Vancouver Sun talks to the prez about his stance on internet piracy:

"When people start going to jail, people will stop doing it."

"It's going to be a battle, man. It's going to be a battle, but I'm ready to [expletive] fight. "We're gonna go after them, we're gonna go after them hard, and we're gonna hurt them."

"[Piracy] hasn't cost us anything compared to what it's going to cost us to go after these guys." "It's gonna cost us a lot of money, but guess what" it's gonna cost them a lot of money. It's gonna get to the point where it's like, you know what, [expletive] it, maybe we shouldn't pirate MMA any more.

"You got these websites like Justin.tv, and they pirate all kinds of things. They play all kinds of [expletive] on there. Well, we're gonna make it where it's not worth it to put UFC events up on the website."

ROFL, I bet you Dana does shut them down because he is just that damn good


He doesn't waste any time...

UFC sues bar owner for alleged pay-per-view piracy
by Steven Marrocco on Jan 06, 2010 at 2:00 pm ET

Hot on the heels of an announcement to punish pay-per-view thieves, the UFC is suing a Boston-area man for the alleged illegal use of a UFC 104 feed.

The Boston Herald reports the promotion is accusing Derek Brady, the owner of a local bar called The Draft Bar and Grille in Allston, Mass., of evading the closed-circuit fees for commercial use of UFC events, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

"This is a situation where a bar has illegally taken our pay-per-view signal without purchasing it through our exclusive closed-circuit providers," UFC general counsel Lawrence Epstein told the paper.

Bars and clubs are usually charged between $500 and $1,500 to show UFC events, depending on the size of the businesses.

UFC lawyer Julie Lonstein said an eyewitness saw Brady transmit a feed of the Oct. 24 event on his laptop to the bar's televisions, according to the report.

Brady's lawyers counter that a bar patron legally purchased the feed and did not have permission.

The UFC is suing Brady for $640,000 plus legal costs.

In testimony for U.S. lawmakers last month, UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said illegal pay-per-vew feeds were costing the promotion millions of dollars.

For more on the UFC's efforts, check out our Monday reprint of a Vancouver Sun story about the PPV piracy: UFC officials vow to sue individuals for pay-per-view piracy in forthcoming crackdown

 

[Nation]

He likes to use expletives in his interviews quite a lot.

 

[Mike Chaos]

Justin.tv is all I watch ever. Never went out of my way to watch MMA on it though. If I were him I would do the same for sure. I would be pissed if thousands of people were watching my PPV for free on justin.tv and you can actually see who is watching it too in the chat rooms.

 

[DcDudley]

I'm sure viewers on justin.tv went up after that statement, what a great advert.lol

 

[xtremebadass]

He doesn't waste any time...

UFC sues bar owner for alleged pay-per-view piracy
by Steven Marrocco on Jan 06, 2010 at 2:00 pm ET

Hot on the heels of an announcement to punish pay-per-view thieves, the UFC is suing a Boston-area man for the alleged illegal use of a UFC 104 feed.

The Boston Herald reports the promotion is accusing Derek Brady, the owner of a local bar called The Draft Bar and Grille in Allston, Mass., of evading the closed-circuit fees for commercial use of UFC events, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

"This is a situation where a bar has illegally taken our pay-per-view signal without purchasing it through our exclusive closed-circuit providers," UFC general counsel Lawrence Epstein told the paper.

Bars and clubs are usually charged between $500 and $1,500 to show UFC events, depending on the size of the businesses.

UFC lawyer Julie Lonstein said an eyewitness saw Brady transmit a feed of the Oct. 24 event on his laptop to the bar's televisions, according to the report.

Brady's lawyers counter that a bar patron legally purchased the feed and did not have permission.

The UFC is suing Brady for $640,000 plus legal costs.

In testimony for U.S. lawmakers last month, UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said illegal pay-per-vew feeds were costing the promotion millions of dollars.

For more on the UFC's efforts, check out our Monday reprint of a Vancouver Sun story about the PPV piracy: UFC officials vow to sue individuals for pay-per-view piracy in forthcoming crackdown

 

[chrislatimer2008]

id do the same as it loses his company money, but i dont like ufc anyway so am probably bias on it

 

[xtremebadass]

I am behind White 100%. Dude knows what he is doing. You never see McMahon going after streamers because McMahon is just stupid.

 

[noumenon]

Or because he realizes he already has millions of dollars and the people who are watching streams wouldn't pay for the fuckin PPV anyway.

 

[Wordlife]

^CHARLIE FTW!!!!

I back Dana 100% too.... MMA is getting mighty hot right now, and its losing money if assholes want to stream it for free to tons of people every ppv.

 

[Wrestling Station]

^CHARLIE FTW!!!!

I back Dana 100% too.... MMA is getting mighty hot right now, and its losing money if assholes want to stream it for free to tons of people every ppv.

you classify them as assholes to those who provide the goodies? :shifty:

Would you rather download/online stream PPVs or pay 10's of dollars if not 100's of dollars to watch them?

 

[Wordlife]

^ok true true... but still lol if it was Vince McMahon, I could care less :shifty:

 

[Decado]

White has already more or less said he knows this won't stop piracy, and that it'll probably cost the UFC more money chasing pirates than they would have lose, but he's the type of guy who would take two punches to give you one haha.

He'll continue to do this till the message gets out that the UFC *might just* sue your ass, and that itself will prevent a lot of people from doing it. Beyond that i think Dana just likes punishing people he feels have taken money from him xD