Streamer illegally broadcast a pay-per-view battle by pretending to play UFC three

Streamer illegally broadcast a pay-per-view battle by pretending to play UFC three

A Twitch streamer managed to broadcast a whole pay-per-view UFC battle by way of the platform over the weekend. AJ Lester managed to dodge Twitch’s moderation of illegally-broadcasting reside sports activities occasions by pretending he was taking part in EA’s UFC three.

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Saturday night time noticed the printed of UFC 218, with the primary occasion being the battle between UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway and challenger Jose Aldo. In a tweet containing a clip from Lester’s stream, the 2 will be seen going through off, accompanied by Lester, controller in hand, within the backside right-hand nook.

To make his charade extra plausible, Lester even accompanied his ‘gameplay’ with sound results. At one level he even calls himself out for not blocking an assault.

Since the tweet he was featured in went viral, Lester has deleted the VOD of the battle. But in a follow-up stream, he claimed he hadn’t heard from Twitch, UFC, or another authority on the matter. Lester has, nevertheless, discovered some success from his endeavours; his follower depend – which he says has been caught at 2,000 for a number of years – has greater than doubled since saturday night time, and has now reached almost 5,000.


 
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