Streamer Successfully Pretends to Play Live Pay-Per-View UFC Event

This is a very amusing example of why automated systems will never detect all streaming violations.

If you attempt to stream a live, pay-per-view event on a service such as Twitch, expect the takedown to happen pretty swiftly. That is, unless you can come up with a clever way of tricking the automated systems and avoiding the takedown. And that's what streamer AJ Lester managed to do on Saturday night.

As Eurogamer reports, Lester wanted to stream a pay-per-view UFC 2018 event, but knew the stream wouldn't stay up long unless he could make it look legitimate. His solution was incredibly simply. Lester simply pretended to be playing a UFC video game.

As the clip above shows, Lester took up his position in the corner of the stream, as is common for most video game livestreams, and proceeded to use a controller and make appropriate game-playing sounds and comments during the entire broadcast. And it worked! His illegal stream did not get detected as a violation and everyone watching got to enjoy the UFC event for free.

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By fooling everyone, including Twitch and LiveRaise, Lester has found Internet fame. He even had to turn off notifications for his social accounts due to the influx of new followers being so high. So far the services he streamed on haven't got in touch with him, but he has now deleted the stream. He may still face some legal action, but hopefully everyone sees the funny side of this.

The reason Lester managed to get away with this is two-fold. Firstly, he recreated the way in which games are livestreamed, which is a perfectly legitimate stream. Secondly, video games have become visually very realistic and that includes EA's UFC games such as UFC 2 and the even more realistic UFC 3 game arriving early next year. They look like the real thing, and so Lester's stream looked like the game version of the real thing, even though it was actually real. Genius.

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