The UFC dubbed Connor McGregor’s fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov as the “biggest Pay-Per-View” show in the organization’s history. And so, while McGregor and Nurmagomedov were battling in the Octagon on Saturday, the UFC was working with anti-piracy firm VFT Solutions to combat illegal streaming of the event.
VFT Solutions tracks the sources of illegal streams, shared through social media, in real time, and also monitors the fans who are consuming the copyrighted content, “disrupting the false belief that viewers are anonymous” according to an official UFC press release. VFT also provided those viewers with a link for viewing of the fight, attempting to provide them with a legal alternative.