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Originally Posted by Gaso
Two words: Piracy. Internet.
I guess this is one of those things that does exist even if we don't speak about it, so I'll share the process in general level with you.
A couple hours after a Pride PPV has aired in Japan or Korea, it's availible for download. Someone has captured the broadcast with a TV-card plugged into his computer or recorded it with some other device. After the show been captured, it's encoded with proper codecs used for compressing video and audio data: quality of the image and sound are decreased in order to obtain a reasonably small file size.
Then the people in question (usually, depends on the country) break the copyright laws and upload the show to the Internet. Peer-to-peer software is the keyword here. How, why, where and when to obtain these files are questions I don't answer.
It's good to remember though, that downloading illegal PPV-copies cuts down the funding of your favourite organization. If you want to support MMA, you'll pay for the fights. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Also, the image quality is usually not on par with the picture you'll see from your telly, so buying the PPV also gives you the priviledge to see the events in maximal quality.
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While that is very true in most aspects, it does not explain how some got to see the event LIVE. These rips generally take at least a few hours to get made and distributed, thus not live.
In this case, to catch the event live, some people use a korean program used to stream TV live, via Peer-to-peer. There's a max amount of simultaneous viewers to each stream, which probably is why people are somewhat hesitant to give out detailed information on how to go about, simply because that means they will have less of a chance to catch one of the "slots" the next time.
If too many knows about it, it will collapse.