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Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 | 1:45 a.m.
The Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship is suing a British man and wants a court order blocking him from airing pirated UFC broadcasts.
Zuffa LLC, owner of the UFC, filed suit Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas against Daniel Wallace of Selsey, West Sussex, England.
Attorneys for Zuffa with the Las Vegas office of the law firm Lewis and Roca LLP charge in the suit that Wallace's website, livevss.tv (associated with livevss.net), has carried unauthorized live-streaming video of UFC events including UFC 119 on Sept. 25.
"Given that events are streamed for free on defendant’s website, defendant derives revenue from selling advertising space on the website such that the viewer is continuously bombarded with 'pop up' ads during any given broadcast," the lawsuit says.
"Based upon defendant’s history of offering 'live streaming' of plaintiff’s past events, as well as those of other MMA (mixed martial arts) providers, plaintiff believes that defendant will similarly offer an unauthorized 'live streaming' video of UFC 120 on Oct. 16, the date of the event (in London)," the lawsuit alleges.
"Plaintiff believes that defendant will 'live stream' UFC 120 to Internet viewers for free," the suit said, suggesting unauthorized broadcasts would undermine the authorized live broadcast on Spike TV in the United States and the pay-per-view broadcast in Australia.
A message for comment on the lawsuit was left with Wallace.
The lawsuit accuses him of copyright infringement and seeks a court order blocking him from copying, displaying and distributing UFC broadcasts as well as damages of $150,000 per infringement, attorneys fees and legal costs and forfeiture of any revenue derived from the allegedly unauthorized broadcasts.
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good protect the copyright holders, i totally agree
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. It's nice to see the Fertittas getting what they have been giving all along. Welcome to the elevator....SHAFT!!
How does an order of a U.S. court affect some dude in England?
I watch UFC on the web all the time. The last matches I watched cost $55 for pay per view, while I paid NADA. I doubt that UFC will be able to stop internet viewing of their events.
Good, Dana White is obnoxious, and he gets what he deserves.
nednougat...Nice to see some of you thieves are posting here. Maybe you will be next.
People like you have nothing to steal because you have created nothing of your own. To busy finding ways to rip off others.
Comment removed by moderator. name-calling.
UFC is boring, I would not watch it for free.
Thank you "Las Vegas Sun" for posting this guys web address, making it that much easier to find streaming content for not only UFC, but other shows as well. Dumb a**es.
If only Zuffa LLC would not be so greed and sell the event in pay per view at say $ 20 per event they would have 10 time the people willing to pay for instead cheating on the web,translate this in higher profit for Zuffa LLC.Everyone get what they deserve.