Lorenzo Fertitta, the co-owner of UFC, recently went to Capitol Hill to discuss the problems facing UFC with respect to online piracy. He told the House Judiciary Committee that some 140,000 people watched UFC 106, the company’s November pay-per-view event headline by Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Grifin, online using various streaming sites. UFC had identified 271 unauthorized streams, which is where the 140,000-person estimate comes from.
The WWE started going after illegal online streams earlier this year. The WWE claimed, like Fertitta, that online streams were damaging its bottom line...More?
source: crunchgear.com
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December 23, 2009
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