Several days after the UFC obtained user information from a website offering pirated pay-per-view events, the promotion plans to sue individuals who watched fights for free.
“We believe that we’ve got an obligation to go out there and try to protect the intellectual property and protect both our rights and the rights of our fighter-partners,” UFC chief legal counsel Lawrence Epstein told MMAjunkie.com on Wednesday.
The impending legal action represents a new tact in the UFC’s fight against piracy.