Zuffa Continues Legal Fight against Pirates

In early 2010 Zuffa publicly declared war on internet pirates, which was promptly followed by a lawsuit against a Boston bar for pirating their product. Today Zuffa is after a U.S. based streaming website.

According to the Las Vegas Sun:

Las Vegas-based Zuffa LLC, owner of the UFC, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on Thursday against Moazzam Gandu. Zuffa says Gandu lives in Stafford, Va., and runs the Web site www.rage-streams.net.

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Rage-streams also offers for sale unauthorized video of at least 40 past UFC events, Zuffa charges. Rage-Streams is profiting from these current and past broadcasts by selling advertising with them, attorneys for Zuffa said.

The lawsuit asserts allegations including copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices. It seeks a temporary restraining order barring rage-streams from providing unauthorized UFC broadcasts.

SBN coverage of UFC 110: Nogueira vs. Velasquez

For those that are curious why people pirate here's a picture that sums it up pretty well.