To stream a sports broadcast, this streamer picked up a controller to avoid a ban.
Actually, you had to pay to watch the UFC fight (with real people). American streamer AJ Lester streamed the entire fight between UFC fighters Max Holloway and Jose Aldo with a simple but effective trick to avoid being banned.
He simply picked up a controller.
Deceptively Realistic Graphics, Right?
Most sports broadcasts on television are copyrighted and cannot be streamed on other platforms without permission. Streamers often try to bypass this on the Twitch.TV platform: They attempt to stream interesting matches for a wide audience.
However, the administrators of the streaming platform usually notice this quickly and the corresponding channels are warned or even banned, as this is illegal.
To continue streaming the match, AJ Lester picked up his gaming controller, turned on his webcam image, and made sounds as if he were actually playing. This made the stream look like a “normal” gaming stream of a UFC video game. However, with surprisingly good graphics.
In the following clip, you can see how great the stream looked:
A viewer tweeted a clip of the streamer’s creative idea and it went viral. Over 170,000 likes and 77,000 retweets the clip achieved on Twitter. In the meantime, the video was removed from Twitter due to a copyright violation.
Streamer Had to Disable Email Notifications
In a follow-up stream, Lester explained that his fame overwhelmed his email inbox because he suddenly gained so many followers on Twitter and other social channels. According to his statements, the streamer has not yet received any messages about possible consequences of his stream.
For safety, he deleted the video of the live broadcast. It remains to be seen whether there will be worse consequences for the streamer.
Through the broadcast, he gained more than 3000 new followers on Twitch and is happy about his new audience.
