Clever UFC fan fools the system, streams a pay-per-view UFC event by pretending to play it

It may not have been lawful, but it sure was clever.

Twitch streamer A.J. Lester hatched a brilliant plan on Saturday: He (illegally) streamed the pay-per-view broadcast of UFC 218, and he got away with it by pretending to play it, controller in hand, as a video game.

It worked. Although the full stream has since been deleted from Lester’s Twitch channel, clips of his performance went viral (h/t Bloody Elbow), because of course they did.

The “pretending to play a video game” thing is cute, and it’s almost certainly the reason this is making the rounds on social media. But if you look at the “clips” section of Lester’s Twitch channel — which still contains portions of the longer UFC stream — he didn’t fully commit to “playing” a live UFC event for the entire time.  Read more…

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