Well you can't apply half realities of pretending FP didn't exist but that these fights or cards have because cancelled or never-happened because of that.
Cards have been happening more frequently these past years, and they've always been shown. Either PPV or free on TV, Internet, Facebook, YouTube, UFC website, etc.... UFC never puts on a show they didn't have available for people to see.
They literally had to eliminate what they were offering for free in order to create a "good deal" for fans to have access to everything (which they already did prior to FP existing).
The illegal downloading of music instead of paying for it is a gargantuan issue for the music industry.
But I do agree with your last statement, there is a market for people who would happily pay a small amount of money in order to streamline something for themselves (that otherwise could be available but a pain in the ass for them), like iTunes or FP instead of hunting through the internet for shit.
Which is why I said fair play to those people.
But the reasoning of a large number of people hating on free shit being made pay is fairly straight-forward, as is the stance of people who will pay a small amount of money for a hobby of theirs.
