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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Well not ALL streaming media. The bill that is in the works, Senate bill S.978, would change the way copyright laws for media streamed on the internet are enforced. It would make it illegal for anyone to post media that is copyrighted without the express written consent of the owner.

Now what this means for us, is that anything from posting Call of Duty montages, to the music we use on them, would now be illegal. People who add lyrics to songs on Youtube would now be fined or sent to jail for doing so.

The other part of this bill that has people up in arms is the division of it that would make embedding copyrighted media on an unauthorized website, such as NGU, illegal.

The punishment for breaking the rules of this new bill would include up to 5 years in prison for anyone who posts more that 10 unauthorized works in a 180 day period.

While I do not support this bill, I do see why it is trying to be passed. The amount of copyright infringement that happens is astonishing. Companies lose billions a year from the use and sharing of pirated material.

Now this would have no direct effect on downloading anything from a torrent or file sharing site. You would still be able to do these things. This ONLY affects streaming media such as Youtube, Google Video, or any other streaming media, such as music.

So what do you think about this? Do you think it could get passed? If it does get passed would you still post videos or other material containing copyrighted works?

all you have to do is find out who is your senator, message him and complain why this bill is bad for blah blah blah, just inform your representitive. democracy is about the people ruling their country with figureheads that represent their views and it won't work if you sit on your ass and don't do anything about it.

****ing dumb senators wasting $ there no chance in hell this will be passed and the you must be dreaming if you think its gonna be enforced
Oh No RUN! its the cyber-police!

Companies also gain billions of dollars from these material. People like to also own the real deal rather than a copy with sharpie markings. With music, me along with a lot of others I know download the music to decide if we like it, if we like it we go and buy the real thing. YouTube and places like that have allowed companies to advertise for free, essentially and it leads to a growth in profit.

All this will do is give these companies more control... they, in my opinion are gaining as it is but with it in place would allow them to regulate it and thus increase their revenue even more...
It is a scam.

Seriously?!:wtf:
This nation is still dealing with a huge national debt, a war, digging itself out of a recession, huge increases in food, gas, electricity, and cost of living, low employment, yet this is what they consider important.

They really have nothing better to do? Damn.

Wtf this is really stupd! Gaming videos keeps us entertained and people actually get paid for playing video games!

Just take down all of YouTube while you're at it. The only thing we'd be left with would be lame ass vlogs about nobodies :dumb:

Even though I'm in the UK, this is still dogshit!

What's the point apart from sueing harmless people for something which doesn't harm anyone?

****ing higher-ups.

Ah, well it's still pointless of the US Goverment. Also I found this form you can fill out to say about the bill and how pointless it is. You must login or register to view this content.

i ****ing hope not bro