> “Are you trying to tell me that people who can barely pay their bills should not be able to show support for your product if they so choose?”<p>This is laughable. I’m an avid torrentor, but I don’t delude myself into thinking what I’m doing is good for the copyright holder.
It's funny how the world changes, they went to such great lengths to target one pirate, but nowdays you can pirate UFC streams by literally googling it while the event is on, or just hanging out on twitter or reddit catching links before they're deleted.<p>(I know this because I buy every PPV via Fightpass, and probably 10-25% of the time the official app fails at least once, and won't log back in for 10-30 minutes, usually leading up to hyped up fights.)
This brings up an interesting angle on the sorts of eye-watering settlement amounts levied against teenagers we read about so often. Are they all setup this way? Do the rights holders expect to be paid or are they happy to announce an insane sum + gag order and call the issue settled?
So they want people to pay for the crap that is UFC? You couldn't pay me to watch it. Watching people bleed all over each other and getting hit in the head until they lose consciousness is sick and takes some sickos to enjoy watching it.
You have to be at least a little tech-savvy to capture content and upload it, so why don't pirates take basic precautions like driving to a public access point before uploading?