Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It (theverge.com)

WheezyJoe writes: A pay-per-view UFC Match was streamed in its entirety on Twitch and other platforms by a gamer pretending he was "playing" the fight as a game. The gamer, AJ Lester, appearing in the corner of the image holding his game controller, made off like he was controlling the action of the "game" when in fact he was re-broadcasting the fight for free. A tweet showing Lester's antics went viral with over 63,000 retweets and 140,000 likes at the time of publication. Another clip shows him reacting wildly yelling "oooooooooooooooh!!!" and "damnnnnnn!" in response to the match.

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Don't worry I know what to do

[Anonymous Coward]

Hit up up down down left right left right about a b a b select start and it'll break the combo.

Re:Don't worry I know what to do

[Anonymous Coward]

You can always tell someone is too young to remember the Konami code when they get it wrong like that.

BTW, it's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A.

Technology is making us obsolete

[Gussington]

CGI is almost photo realistic these days, you would think at some point using motion detect, facial recognition body mechanic modelling etc any sports event would be able to be rendered in game in near real time so defeats the point of paying to see it.
We live in interesting times...

Re:Technology is making us obsolete

[DontBeAMoran]

Would you watch a stream of programmers typing on their keyboards? No, because it's pointless.

Humans watch other humans playing sports because they're too fucking lazy to play sports themselves.

Oh, "for the teams", you say? That's tribalism, meaning you have the same brain processes as cavemen.

Re:Technology is making us obsolete

[rmdingler]

Entertainment options such as movies are handicapped from the outset by predetermined outcomes. "Humans watch other humans playing sports" do so, because it's one of the the few things you can watch in which the outcome has yet to be determined.

"Oh, "for the teams", you say? That's tribalism, meaning you have the same brain processes as cavemen."

We are the descendants of a long line of tribal people, fighting the instinct to team up or die. For a factual, current example, consider political alignment.

Re:Technology is making us obsolete

[Opportunist]

You mean someone would pay to watch me hack a server?

You know why "hacking" in movies is unrealistic? Because the reality is FUCKING BORING to watch. Even if you know what the person is doing, it's by no means a spectator sport. Twice so if you have no idea what's going on.

Re:Technology is making us obsolete

[stealth_finger]

You mean someone would pay to watch me hack a server?

You know why "hacking" in movies is unrealistic? Because the reality is FUCKING BORING to watch. Even if you know what the person is doing, it's by no means a spectator sport. Twice so if you have no idea what's going on.

HACK THE PLANET!

Good luck...

[Dutch Gun]

Good luck with your legal fees dude.

Sure

[easyTree]

UFC has the depth of a videogame. Lol wtf.

Is that "Fair use"?

[mnemotronic]

It sure seems like that could be illegal. I could see how it might be "parody". I can't see the courts allowing that defense for an entire event.

It could be that by the time it comes to trial, if that's how it works out, the courts will have been seeded with people for whom "fair use" means "pay us now or pay us later".