URGENT: Congress Wants To Make Streaming A Felony

[tiekmir]

Thought some peps here might see this as serious like I do.

http://act.demandprogress.org/act/te...ource%3Dauto-e

Tell Congress to oppose S. 978, the new "Ten Strikes" bill

Here they go again: The big business lobbyists who are behind the Internet Blacklist Bill are already making the sequel. THIS WEEK Senators will be voting on a "Ten Strikes" bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content -- like music in the background of a Youtube video -- more than ten times.

As the writers at TechDirt point out, under this bill you could go to jail for posting video of your friends singing karaoke:

The entertainment industry is freaking out about sites that embed and stream infringing content, and want law enforcement to put people in jail over it, rather than filing civil lawsuits.... We already pointed to one possibility: that people embedding YouTube videos could face five years in jail. Now, others are pointing out that it could also put kids who lip sync to popular songs, and post the resulting videos on YouTube, in jail as well.

That's right: Ten strikes and you could get jail time. Less than two weeks ago, the Hollywood industry magazine, Variety, reported, "Industry lobbyists pressed House members on Wednesday to pass legislation that would make illegal streaming of movies, TV shows and other types of content a felony...."

Scary yes?

[Elmo]

well you do know it is illegal for youtube to take your music off because of this
they banned my stuff couple times i went on the net and found an old law from the 70's which basically said if u werent makin no profit off of it u could use coprighted music for educational purposes and bunch of other reasons
you just put it in the complaints and they will put back your video within 5minutes lol its pretty crazy and they dont say sorry or nothin
i just find the hole idea of laws nowadays are kindda stupid
so let me get this straight today is the last day i can drink and drive..but tomorrow i will go to jail for it? lol
i mean whats the difference most artist have freakin youtube accounts and i can listen to the entire freakin album
love how metallica used to b all anti internet music blabla then when they find a way to make money off it their all for it and sucking up to internet fans