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UFC will sue individuals for PPV piracy
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article published on 6 January, 2010
UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) president Dana White has said today that the sport is preparing to sue individuals and websites that offer the MMA content illegally.
The UFC made about $350 million in PPV revenue in 2009, but many websites have been streaming the UFC PPV events for free online, while they are playing live.
UFC CEO Lorenzo Fertitta said his anti-piracy group had ... [ read the full article ]
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gmontalc
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8. January 2010 @ 17:34 |
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UFC at its beginnings the owners and promoters were happy to see those websites giving a lot of free promotions to those non-profitable media and not so legal fights, but now that they're making millions of $US dollars want to go after every single cent. (greedy bastards)
BTW, Nowdays the UFC fights are lame and boring, one fighter kicked ass when the other is scared chicken, lately for quite sometime now, the fights aren't even close to once it was.
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8. January 2010 @ 18:35 |
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Originally posted by gmontalc:
BTW, Nowdays the UFC fights are lame and boring, one fighter kicked ass when the other is scared chicken, lately for quite sometime now, the fights aren't even close to once it was.
I have to agree here sometimes, it's almost as tho some fighters are trying not to Lose instead of going all out to win.
Some fights tho are still kick-ass standup battles or really exciting BJJ with lots of move-countermove action. I hate it when a guy just lays on top of another guy and smothers the fight into boredom, working just enough so the ref doesn't stand it up...yech! That's not fighting!
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gmontalc
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8. January 2010 @ 19:43 |
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I hate it when a guy just lays on top of another guy and smothers the fight into boredom, working just enough so the ref doesn't stand it up...yech! That's not fighting!
And not to say when the so call the biggest fight of the evening between two furious fighters goes on and on dancing around the cage throwing a jab o two afar from two meters away from each other.
good example UFC 108, Thiago Silva vs. Rashad Evans, stupid fight, all night long smothering and running away from each other, until lucky punch from Silva, but by then he couldn't finished Evans because he was too tired from running around.
Kimbo Slice vs Houston Alexander, Houston was obviously chicken scared... and many more similar fights.
Yet, the greedy Dana White & Co. wants more and more money from the people.
My suggestion to resolve these money ($$$) problems is to bring the rules from PRIDE FIGHTING (Japan), if the fighter shows laziness or no action, he would be penalized with the half of his winning purse (Yellow Card), if he for the second time happens in the fight gets penalty with no purse (Red Card), and has to continue fighting for Self-Pride otherwise he is out of any fighting contract.
So, by taken these rules the fighter will stay hungry for the money and also to keep his contract current, and also "we" the fans will see more action value for the buck we paid.
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9. January 2010 @ 00:50 |
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Chappy.. I was a rock club bouncer for 3 years.. come to my house and I will kick YOUR arse for you quite happily..
Last person tried it woke up 9 hours later with a wired up jaw.. and I only hit them once.
Right now some of my friends are hunting down this companies ip's and experimenting with ip spoofing methods for streaming. They will be shown up for their stupidity.
As usual a fanboy doesn't have the intellect to see a joke.. *giggles* .. come my house and get your arse well and truly kicked by a girl XD
Scum101 i dont know whether the thought or having my ass kicked by a girl is scary or a turn on????On the otherhand i dont go around picking fights.if someone was willing to pay me the amount of money UFC fighters make to beat someone up i just might consider it.I think if the fighters tryed to focus on injuring the opponent rather than standing 2metres away blocking air punches that are no where near them they'd have more chance of winning the fight and it would be more entertaining.On the tv the otherday when i watched the UFC straight after was some clasic boxing matches and them fights looked brutal compared to the UFC.
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9. January 2010 @ 15:45 |
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Oh boo hoo! Ever thought that maybe that loss is because some people don't get off on watching a fight anymore? I don't watch ANY sports. Least of all, wrestling, boxing, etc. I wouldn't pirate that garbage if my life depended on it :p
Just my 2cents though...
Violence begets more violence...
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9. January 2010 @ 20:25 |
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Just because someone will watch these fights on a stream doesn't they will pay for the PPV. I think Mr. White is wasting his money and should just accept the fact that his sport will be streamed over the net without his consent.
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9. January 2010 @ 20:38 |
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Give me 5' and my shotgun . . just how tough will you bad-a$$es be then?
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9. January 2010 @ 21:22 |
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Give me 5' and my shotgun . . just how tough will you bad-a$$es be then?
just hope you dont run out of bullets.you could get decked while reloading
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10. January 2010 @ 13:23 |
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Originally posted by pcrazy99:
Just because someone will watch these fights on a stream doesn't they will pay for the PPV. I think Mr. White is wasting his money and should just accept the fact that his sport will be streamed over the net without his consent.
EXACTLY. Most people pirating are of High School age, and probably could not afford to but the PPV anyways (even with a few friends).
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Serialluv
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10. January 2010 @ 14:08 |
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In all fairness Dana does say they aren't lost sales though, just potential losses. He does have the sense to realise that not everyone would buy it if there were no other alternative.Some credit it where it's due at least I reckon
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10. January 2010 @ 16:22 |
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Originally posted by Serialluv:
In all fairness Dana does say they aren't lost sales though, just potential losses. He does have the sense to realise that not everyone would buy it if there were no other alternative.Some credit it where it's due at least I reckon
Credit for what? Everything you just said, you put words in his mouth, I couldn't find it anywhere in the article, not even implied.
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Serialluv
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10. January 2010 @ 18:27 |
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In all fairness Dana does say they aren't lost sales though, just potential losses. He does have the sense to realise that not everyone would buy it if there were no other alternative.Some credit it where it's due at least I reckon
Credit for what? Everything you just said, you put words in his mouth, I couldn't find it anywhere in the article, not even implied.
Did you read it then???
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10. January 2010 @ 18:46 |
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Originally posted by Serialluv:
In all fairness Dana does say they aren't lost sales though, just potential losses. He does have the sense to realise that not everyone would buy it if there were no other alternative.Some credit it where it's due at least I reckon
Credit for what? Everything you just said, you put words in his mouth, I couldn't find it anywhere in the article, not even implied.
Did you read it then???
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Yes, I read it. You read it too, obviously, you just didn't understand it.
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"[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...[/b]
Unless one is dyslexic, is written black on white(rephrasing):
"Piracy cost us money, and comparing to it is going to cost us much,much more to go after these guys, is gonna cost us a lot of money".
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"Compared to what piracy cost us, is going to cost us much more to go after these guys."
English language can be tricky...you missed that "compared to", which kicks the hell out of your negation...
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"A double negative doesn't occur when no two forms of non-negation aren't not used in no not-same unsentence. Not in no languages no non-double unnegative doesn't resolve not to a non-negative, while in no others it doesn't not resolve to no not-positive"(via Uncyclopedia)
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Serialluv
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10. January 2010 @ 18:54 |
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Don't be a smart-ass before you mouth off about English, you might want to check who you're trying to smart off too! I have an English Masters and a PHD. I teach it for a living and write part time. You clearly state in your argument paraphrasing - you are aware of the origins of this word?
Just because you read something one way, and somebody else reads it another, does not make either party correct. Personally, I read it as Dana saying that it doesn't automatically convert into lost sales.
But I believe it doesn't matter what I say, as you are obviously so arrogant you will be confident you are right and come straight back at my comment, with reasons as to why you are right and I am wrong, why you are better. I got news for you NOBODY CARES!!!! This is the last I will be responding, you just aren't worth my time.
And If I have made any English errors in my argument, you can attribute that to the fact that due to a long standing back injury I am currently on morphine.
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10. January 2010 @ 19:16 |
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Sorry about your pain...morphine is a good excuse.
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"I got news for you NOBODY CARES!!!! This is the last I will be responding, you just aren't worth my time."
-This is a pretty normal/standard response from someone that doesn't have a better argument, and too proud to admit he had a brain fart. You obviously care, since you bothered to write more than just "go to hell", or something on that line...or not write anything at all...
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"And If I have made any English errors in my argument, you can attribute that to the fact that due to a long standing back injury I am currently on morphine."
If you would've started and stopped with that, you would've had my respect(not that you'd care anyway!!) Instead you wave around some Master of English PHD SUperDuper, which obviously didn't help you today. Those poor kids you're teaching, that's the gloomy future of the country right there.
Yes, you are right about one thing...I AM an arrogant SOB, and this time happens that I am right. And no I don't know the origin of a fancy word like "paraphrasing", it just happens that I get lucky sometimes and use it in the right context.
Online muscle flexing behind a screen is so much fun! If I am late responding to your next argument, is because I am out to grab another beer...Cheers(would do you good, it might augment the morphine's analgesic effect)!!!
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10. January 2010 @ 20:21 |
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geeez.. yeah because Dana White definitely isnt making enough money off of the PPV events.. Its not because they care about piracy, its because theyre becoming greedy as shit.
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11. January 2010 @ 11:39 |
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Originally posted by Serialluv:
I have an English Masters and a PHD. I teach it for a living and write part time.
Well I am Dana White and I can tell you that's not what I meant!
Hey, if you can BS, I can to.;)
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11. January 2010 @ 19:03 |
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Originally posted by xboxdvl2:
...instead of taking out lawsuits why don't they just send top fighters to go around peoples houses/businesses and sort out this problem????
And then what?
They will stream the beat down live on their site where paying customers will be able watch it with Joe Rogan's commentary.
ILLD PAY TO C THAT!!
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21. January 2010 @ 16:27 |
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It is always amusing to see greedy companies thinking that litigation will make them money in the long run. It's hard to get blood from a turnip, and law suits against people who will never pay for your product doesn't make sense. You end up spending money for nothing except making yourself look ridiculous and greedy. How much money is enough? Is US$350,000,000 in not enough 2009 alone not enough?
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13. June 2010 @ 16:34 |
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MMA is all well and good in a ring, but a bat round the back of any mans head puts him down, it's not being macho or anyhing, it's just biology, make their brain shake inside their skull and bingo KO. Krav maga is about the only martial art useable in the real world FACT, even then it doesn't claim to make you superhuman, taking a bat over your head, being your special power.
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