Following
the recent announcement by Dana White about the UFC actively pursuing
people who pirate UFC events comes the first litigation for doing so.
A man from the Boston area, Derek Brady is being sued by the
organisation for allegedly illegally showing UFC 104 in his bar, The
Draft Bar and Grill in Allston, Massachussetts.
"This
is a situation where a bar has illegally taken our pay-per-view
signal without purchasing it through our exclusive closed-circuit
providers," UFC general counsel Lawrence Epstein told the
Boston
Herald.
Businesses
usually have to pay between $500 and $1500 in closed-circuit fees to
show UFC events, depending on the size of the venue.
The UFC
is suing Brady for $640000 plus legal costs.
Brady's lawyers
claim the feed was hooked up by a patron who did not have permission
to do so.
