Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Zuffa Files Ex Parte Motion For A Temporary Restraining Order Re Streaming Website hq-streams.com

Following up on my earlier post, "Zuffa Files Lawsuit Seeking Injunction Preventing Potential Stream of UFC 118 at hq-streams.com," it appears that Zuffa has filed an emergency motion for an ex parte temporary restraining order.  Ex parte simply"[r]efers to situations in which only one party (and not the adversary) appears before a judge."  Thus, Zuffa is asking the court to grant the TRO without hearing from the defendant.

While the motion, which should be Doc No. 2, does not appear on the docket sheet, Zuffa filed a proposed order on the motion providing, inter alia, as follows:
"A.   Defendant’s agents, servants, employees and/or all persons acting in concert or participation with Defendant are prohibited from copying, manipulating, adapting, reproducing, uploading, distributing, sharing, selling or displaying any of Plaintiff’s Copyrighted Broadcasts and are prohibited from copying, manipulating, adapting, reproducing, uploading, distributing, sharing, selling or displaying UFC 118 in any manner.  B.  The domain name registrar, GoDaddy.com, Inc., is ordered to take possession of <hq-streams.com> and ensure that it is not accessible to Internet uers [sic] until the Court rules on Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction;" 
Given that it is Wednesday -- and UFC 118 is on Saturday -- and given that prior UFC ppv's have allegedly been improperly streamed, I wonder whether the judge will be willing to entertain this motion ex parte.  It doesn't seem unreasonable to at least give the defendant the opportunity to be heard before ruling on the motion.

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