Twitch Streamer Secretly Streams Live UFC Fight

Twitch, the popular video game live streaming service, feels rather strongly about users using their service to broadcast television programming. Especially towards pay-per-view events such as live sports. Understandably so, considering the possibility of being charged with copyright violations. Though when there's a will there's a way, and one user found a way.

Twitch Streamer Lester_Gaming could be found last Saturday evening streaming under the EA Sports EFC 3 category. While at a glance, it seems nothing unusual, in actuality Lester was streaming that night's UFC 218 pay-per-view fight, while holding a game controller and pretending to play a game.

While modern UFC games have come a long way graphically, it's the crowd reactions and the commentary that were the easiest to catch. Something that games today still struggles to get continuously unique enough to not sound repetitive. And of course, the graphics for these games aren't real life quality just yet.

After his UFC "gameplay," Lester switched over to Fortnite, a popular battle royale simulator. He states that he is not concerned with any repercussions from Twitch, though he has deleted the archived video just in case.

So far no action has been taken by EA, Twitch, or the UFC. There's a possibility that no action will be taken, considering how this is good press for everyone.

You can see a snippet of Lester's act here thanks to Twitter user @TheRealSMA.