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To the people of the world,
We are Anonymous.

The United States Congress is trying to pass a bill that will make it a criminal offense to stream copyrighted material without authorization. This means, that any videogame game play, demos, or tutorials will be taken off the web. The penalties for this bill are not only massive, but pose both the option of jail time and the paying of a hefty fine.

Uploading a video to YouTube or some other means of multimedia communication can land someone up to 5 years in prison based on the idea of copyright infringement. However, as always, congress has decided to take their tyrannical scheme one step further. If a video is deemed as copy right infrigement, you upload more than one copyrighted works and the “retail value” of your performances exceeds a certain limit, you are deemed a criminal in the eyes of the United States Congress. In short, this means that if the government thinks that you have cost the copyright owner too much money, then you can do both jail time and pay a large fine. On top of that, if you simply provide a link to a copyrighted video, you could face penalties as well.

Gamers, your opinions are apparently becoming too much of a risk to the governments money. By providing your guidance to games, your opinions, and your intellectual cogitations you are committing a criminal offense. To make matters even worse, and in favor of the corporate fat cats we call the government, this bill will be engraved in the criminal law guidelines. That means that if this bill is passed, the government has the power to charge you with copyright infringement regardless of the copyright holders take on the situation.

This is not only a form of censorship; this is the very essence of denying the free flow of information.

We, Anonymous, The people, will not allow this to go by unnoticed.

We will unite by one, and divide by zero.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive greedy governments.
We do not forget censorship.
To the United States Congress, Expect us.

Not too bothered about this, I don't watch any American youtubers anyway. Anyone with a partnership with Machinima should be fine, and the US Government can't change the rules in the UK.
Still, if this does take place and what is said in the video does happen, I feel sorry for any American youtubers here.

Does these rules applied in UAE or Egypt ?

hm nor me it came up on recommend 4 u bit lol and know this wont be done in the uk

This bill is a travesty, however Anonymous aren't helping. Just giving the internet a bad name to old, out-of-date politicians IMO.

Aslong as it doesn't affect my gaming do what you wnat

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This will never happen. The bill is apparently worded in such a way that it effectively removed "fair use" from copyright laws. This would make Let's Plays, Reviews, Top Tens, Walkthroughs etc. all illegal. Not just for video games but for movies too. Somehow I doubt they'll be arresting Roger Ebert. Can you see them closing down syndicated movie review shows that appear on actual television. Doubt it. Plus, consider this, Machinima, Gamespot, IGN... do you really think these companies are all going to roll over and take it... doubt it. Do you think people like The Angry Video Game Nerd or That Guy With The Glasses wouldn't have spoken about this by now. This bill will either never pass, is being blown out of proportion and doesn't actually do anything but stop legitimate violations of copyright (like entire episodes of The Big Bang Theory and Scrubs on Megavideo), or it'll have absolutely no effect whatsoever, just like how the Millenium Act in UK which makes downloading music illegal (which would include watching it on YouTube by the way) in the UK is pretty much never enforced.

This both doesn't effect me and will never actually happen anyway. USA may have a lot of idiots in it, but they're not THAT stupid. Besides, piracies already illegal and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US does it, don't believe me, take a peak a premium for a second.... as if this will make a shred of a difference to anything.

Anonymous is trying to stick up for the people. I give them credit.