"When people start going to jail, people will stop doing it."
"It's going to be a battle, man. It's going to be a battle, but I'm ready to [expletive] fight. "We're gonna go after them, we're gonna go after them hard, and we're gonna hurt them."
"[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, but guess what — it's gonna cost them a lot of money. It's gonna get to the point where it's like, you know what, [expletive] it, maybe we shouldn't pirate MMA any more.
"You got these websites like Justin.tv, and they pirate all kinds of things. They play all kinds of [expletive] on there. Well, we're gonna make it where it's not worth it to put UFC events up on the website."
Dana White Says If You Pirate UFC PPV's You Will Go To Jail
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Man, when people say stuff like that, it just makes me want to do it even more.
With that said, the rumor I heard is that the UFC didn’t do anything about yanking streams of UFC 108.
The fact of the matter is that the kind of people that are going to go find a stream aren’t going to buy a PPV. The audience the UFC has is such that they either watch it on PPV, they don’t watch it at all, or they’ll catch a stream. If a streamer can’t watch it for free, they’re very, very unlikely to watch it at all. So you’ve got people who will either watch it for free, or not watch it at all. In both cases there’s zero revenue, but in one of the cases you’ve got some dudes talking to other people at work on Monday about how bad-ass the “Ultimate Fighting” was over the weekend.
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where did you hear that roumor?
by Erich Vowell on Jan 6, 2010 6:38 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I don’t remember offhand; probably Wrestling Observer.
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i wont buy it, but if i cant watch it…i aint got nothing to talk about =)
il make amends when i get some serious revenue tho… i promise Dana ;)
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by RearNakedPoke on Jan 6, 2010 7:05 AM EST up reply actions
This is a dangerous gamble for the UFC to undertake. The internet audience is their biggest and most loyal supporters so possibly alienating them could prove fatal.
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by villin on Jan 6, 2010 2:52 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I think it’s odd for one company to have so many different profit models. Obviously PPV is a big earner, but if no one was buying in the US, you can bet that we’d be getting it either free or on pay tv. The brits don’t have to order the PPV, neither do the Swedes, and I’m sure internationally they are not alone. Makes me feel like a sucker for shelling out my hard earned dough.
How much of the piracy could be stemmed if they’d lower their prices? I’d order much more events at half the price or even $30.
To be fair it’s because the UFC PPVs air 4 in the morning here – what small amount of viewers they get would be reduced to zeron if people had to pay for them. Whatever liscensing fee they get from the broadcaster over here is as much money Zuffa will make from the Swedish market at this point in time.
Bloody hell.
by 3PA on Jan 6, 2010 6:09 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I hear you…
What about, though, the events in Britain (I realize fewer than here) that the US customers order on tape delay? (That actually pisses off a few of my more picky friends who watch mma, who also always complained that PRIDE was always broadcast in the US on a delay)
I guess my point is, Dana talks a good deal about how the fighters ought to thank their lucky stars to be with such a great organization, how Zuffa pays more, cares more for their fighters, in this really eff’d up economy – and always stresses JUST HOW bad our economy is by saying “you guys have no idea how bad it really is” – stuff like that, gloom and doom prophesy… And I realize what he’s saying – but that crap he’s saying is largely true. If I had the same work I was getting two years ago, I could order more events at $50/pop. If the economy is so screwed and he really cares about that, he should maybe give us working stiffs a break until the economy rebounds. I realize that’s pie-in-the-sky thinking on my part, ie it’ll never happen… though pie in the sky? Now that I think of it, today, many, many people have probably had pie in the sky, you know, airplanes and sh*t. LOL
I’m just bitching because times are tough financially, and I guess this means I should probably find a bar that airs it since I don’t have many friends around here who watch or like mma. Go figure. The one brother I have that really digs MMA recently moved out of state and we always used to split the cost of the events. Those were good times.
yea
no way they lower the price of PPV during tough times…the raise it back up when times get better….lol…talk about backlash…
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