UFC president Dana White announced that he has a surprise stored for anyone hosting UFC crack streams of any pay-per-view events during 2021, but he didn’t specify how he plans to do so.
The UFC boss is probably going referring to the just lately approved United States’ Defending Lawful Streaming Act of 2020. The new laws now make illegally streaming copyrighted products to a large-scale audience a felony.
Many fans have mocked White’s efforts to cut back pira`cy over the years. The battle in opposition to crack streams – one of many foremost unlawful streaming web sites – is one thing that the UFC struggles with for years. As one of the final business that also makes most of its gross sales based mostly on pay-per-view, it was the promotion’s curiosity to sort out down on streamers.
We have been one of many leagues which have been so proactive on piracy. I like how cool and hard these guys act on social media as a result of – let me let you know what, we have caught lots of people. Let me tell you what they do: They cry,” White mentioned about crack streams hosts. “They cry, and so they beg to not be prosecuted and all this different stuff. We simply overcame an enormous hurdle within the piracy world, and we’ll catch a few of these guys in 2021. And I stay up for the crying and the begging… We’ll see how robust they’re once they get caught.”
Whereas White is aware that the battle against piracy won’t be received quickly, the UFC president nonetheless hopes that his threats will discourage pirated stream users during the event.
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