[jerzey devil]

How did anyone in America see the fights already. I'm just wondering if there was a way to order it or did you watch it online somwhere? Please help.

[jerzey devil]

Either everyone is selfishly withholding the requested information, or everyone in the spoiler forum is from Japan.

[Tommy Seoul]

Check PMs.

[Gaso]

Originally Posted by jerzey devil

How did anyone in America see the fights already. I'm just wondering if there was a way to order it or did you watch it online somwhere? Please help.

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.

[monodc]

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.

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.

[oly-ko]

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.

That's right... so: don't check the spoilers and buy the fucking PPV.

[cartman]

you guys are crazy, there's no santa and there's no easter bunny.

[ChokeEmOut]

I am watching it for the 3rd time, Vitor just KOd Takahashi..all i want to see is the Silva fight again.

[Araxen]

I got a stream of the korea broadcast live in the US via very good place.

Watching it live is 1000x better than watching the crappy cutup US PPV broadcast we get over here. I would easily pay $50 for the PPV if it was broadcast live in the states with japanese commentators. I don't care that it's at 2am in the morning I would watch it!

[ChinBo37]

not to sound rude but people should figure this stuff out for themselves. As soon as it beccomes real public and on very high profile fight forums peopel will want to get it stopped.

Its amazing what you can figure out by PMing people and using google rather than starting threads about this shit