Theres nothing wrong with streaming, right? Wrong.
UFC figurehead Dana White has openly stated that internet streaming is taking a large percentage out of his bottom line and he wants it to come to an end.
The UFC President claimed that they were going to go after those who illegally view his pay-per-views without forking out the cash but most laughed off this allegation and called his bluff.
It seems that now he has raised the pot targeting greenfeedz.com, an online streaming source that supplies streams for various forms of entertainment.
Here is a snippet from Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter where he broke the news:
As part of legal action against the web site www.greenfeedz.com, which streamed UFC 130 to 142 illegally and was threatened with legal action, Zuffa was able to obtain e-mail addresses, user names, and each individual event streamed as well as IP addresses of everyone who watched an event through that web site and will be legally going after the individual consumers for copyright violations.
This is an odd approach to the usual crackdown on piracy as usually the target is the supplier of the stream not the little man who views it but could be just enough to scare a few teenagers straight.