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The government wants to make sure that, as online piracy moves increasingly to streaming, the law keeps up with the activity... [The government's 'copyright czar' Victoria Espinel] wants Congress to "clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances."
Not only that, but the paper calls for wiretaps to be used to identify people who may be "illegally streaming" media.
Under the broadest reading of this proposal, clicking on a Youtube video with an unauthorized audio track could make you a felon, since you would have streamed it without the permission of the copyright holder.
It's rather alarming in general how we have moved to the criminalization of copyright law - an area that used to be entirely the realm of civil courts.
Unfortunately, this is a bipartisan disaster - Victoria Espinel's "czar" position was created by the "Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act" of 2008 - signed into law by President George W. Bush in October of that year.
I guess we'll see now if Speaker Boehner allows any of these proposals to make it into any House bills... he did vote for the PRO-IP Act, by the way...
This is what happens when Big Government gets in bed with Big Business... the Americans subjugated to the rule of businesses... classic crony capitalism... Obama is no different... really sad...
It's shocking because of the scope of conduct it would potentially turn into federal felonies, and the potential to expand the "security state" into the private lives (and computers) of millions of citizens.
This is what happens when Big Government gets in bed with Big Business... the Americans subjugated to the rule of businesses... classic crony capitalism... Obama is no different... really sad...
Big business? There are hundreds of small independent film makers and thousands of workers who labor behind the scenes of major projects whose product is being stolen, yes stolen, by pirating their work.
Once again it is amazing how the so-called core values of so-called conservatives are based purely on what can be used to excoriate the current administration. For folks who claim that private property is sacrosanct to sudden turn a blind eye to what is no more than theft of intellectual property and to term protecting that intellectual property as just a power grab by the federal government is flat out astounding.
Under the broadest reading of this proposal, clicking on a Youtube video with an unauthorized audio track could make you a felon, since you would have streamed it without the permission of the copyright holder...
"streaming a video" would refer to the site streaming it.
Big business? There are hundreds of small independent film makers and thousands of workers who labor behind the scenes of major projects whose product is being stolen, yes stolen, by pirating their work.
Once again it is amazing how the so-called core values of so-called conservatives are based purely on what can be used to excoriate the current administration. For folks who claim that private property is sacrosanct to sudden turn a blind eye to what is no more than theft of intellectual property and to term protecting that intellectual property as just a power grab by the federal government is flat out astounding.
Tell me what "core values" cause you keep talking about them but never explain what they are... stolen? Who stole it? Do they still have it? Did they profit off of it? Its amazing how someone would want to protect a DEFUNCT system of copyrights and patents that used to provide security for the development of technology is now a HINDRANCE to the development of technology... you can blah blah your corporatism all you want... the old system of slavery didn't work out, so now YOU decide that our masters should be corporations... thanks... no thanks...
Call me a dense old dinosaur, but what exactly is illegal streaming? How could a kid do it at home as someone pointed out?
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