URGENT: Congress Wants To Make Streaming A Felony

In other news: Google buys American government.foxhound_fox

It'll never pass, and the President will never sign it. Maniacc1

What if the offender is outside the U.S.?chrisrooR

Extraordinary Rendition.

I don't see this law passing, and I don't see them being able to afford to enforce the law if it does.

O'er the land of the free!

[QUOTE="Travo_basic"]I don't see this passing.QuistisTrepe_

It will pass, just like the moronic DMCA, the Pro IP act, ACTA, and every other attempt to turn the internet into a police state.

All of which have been incredibly successful so far. :P

[QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

[QUOTE="Travo_basic"]I don't see this passing.chessmaster1989

It will pass, just like the moronic DMCA, the Pro IP act, ACTA, and every other attempt to turn the internet into a police state.

All of which have been incredibly successful so far. :P

Yeah, **** Fair Use and impaired free speech rights, I didn't really need them anyway.

[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]What if the offender is outside the U.S.?xerxes5678

Extraordinary Rendition.

I don't see this law passing, and I don't see them being able to afford to enforce the law if it does.

True. I'm not sure how they'd be able to regulate and afford sending thousands of extra cash to send innocent people to jail because they decided to do a lets play through video, or played some music in the video, or showed part of a movie in their video.

Can't see it passing, but this crap ticks me off about our government today. They seem to be only looking at it from one angle, but seem to be ignoring the fact that there are tons of people who rely on using media in their videos because it's their job.

Ridiculous.

If you aren't profiting on it there should be no problem whatsoever with using it.

This better not pass. There will be riots.

howlrunner13

A riot of nerds, yeah right.

It's going to affect people who make money off of youtube, posting Gaming vidoes.

I don't think the government understands the internet and what it's made of. :P

Does congress even know what streaming is?

Lto_thaG

the President will never sign it. Maniacc1

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]

[QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

It will pass, just like the moronic DMCA, the Pro IP act, ACTA, and every other attempt to turn the internet into a police state.

QuistisTrepe_

All of which have been incredibly successful so far. :P

Yeah, **** Fair Use and impaired free speech rights, I didn't really need them anyway.

This would be bad if it passed but honestly everything I ever see about how the internetas we know it is going to end, never really seems materializes. I'll keep my eyes out but I doubt it'll be passed, and if it is I don't think we'll see it very much

it would be awful :/

Even if someone moves outside of the US and posts gaming videos, since the Youtube headquarters are in the United States, it would be Youtube that gets in trouble if the gaming videos are posted by someone outside of the US. Meaning, that Youtube will take every gaming video down to save their asses if the biill were to pass.