Streaming illegal content = Felony(SOPA Awise fwom yo gwave)

[Meresgi]

http://bgr.com/2013/08/06/obama-admi...oposal-felony/

11:40 AM
Although pressure from activists and major tech companies helped kill off the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last year, it looks as though the Obama administration wants to bring a key part of it back from the grave. The Washington Post reports that the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force last week released a report that recommended classifying illegal content streaming as a felony.

Specifically, the report proposes “adopting the same range of penalties for criminal streaming of copyrighted works to the public as now exists for criminal reproduction and distribution… since the most recent updates to the criminal copyright provisions, streaming (both audio and video) has become a significant if not dominant means for consumers to enjoy content online.”

The task force’s recommendation comes months after United States Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante said that Congress should make illegal content streaming a felony, so this is an idea that is seemingly gaining traction with people in high places in Washington.

Quoted article since it's pretty short. Follow up link about Maria Pallante:

http://bgr.com/2013/03/22/music-stre...oposal-392709/

Supposedly this will only effect the people who run an illegal streaming site at first from what I have read, though not 100% sure on that.

[ronin sparthos]

They can take my freedoms, take my politicians, take my home and take my job but they'll never take my ability to gank songs off Youtube!

[Vandole]

so they want to end justin.tv and youtube. neat.

[Day]

youtube has streaming?

youtube is a piece of shit now anyways so if this is actually somehow related to youtube idgaf.

[Day]

i guess youtubes is technically streaming, don't really think of that when I hear "streaming". are they really going to charge youtubes with felonies lol? glad we got our priorities straight with this administration though.

[archibaldcrane]

The ambiguity of the verb "streaming" is causing some confusion here. This is not referring to watching a stream hosted by someone else (out of market NFL games, PPV MMA fights, whatever) - it's regarding the person who is exhibiting said stream - the person "distributing copyrighted content".

[Day]

I wasn't so confused over that as like youtube/netflix streaming vs live streaming of PPV etc.... I guess they are the same thing when considering this law?

[Chun Liroy]

What about porn sites? oh no

[archibaldcrane]

I wasn't so confused over that as like youtube/netflix streaming vs live streaming of PPV etc.... I guess they are the same thing when considering this law?

yeah - but the question is, who is committing the felony? Youtube or the person who posted the illegal "stream" on it?

[Day]

From the article and follow up it sounds like youtube? But it's all pretty fucking vauge.

[Howie Roary]

I thought they were referring to content that was illegal, like snuff

so the streaming of snuff would be illegal, not streaming regular shows etc

[Day]

illegal as in copyrighted is what they mean

[kuronosan]

This is fucking retarded and not at all what people are asking for when it comes to change. I'm pretty disgusted with this administration lately.

[Churchill]

more or less referring to sites like tvmuse.eu and the like. very recently tvmuse stopped allowing links to the uploaded content to be posted so its existence is pretty much worthless now lol.

[Churchill]

This is fucking retarded and not at all what people are asking for when it comes to change. I'm pretty disgusted with this administration lately.

lately? i dont know why people believe politicians lol.

[BaneTheBrawler]

choices were bad and batshit crazy, followed by bad and bought&paid. i do not regret my votes.... but it would be nice to have a choice that isn't awful.

[Cantih]

We need more than just Zealot for President. We need to fill out half of Congress as well.

[Meresgi]

lately? i dont know why people believe politicians lol.

^This. It's the reason I didn't bother even going out to vote last election, Romney as a terrible choice but Obama has been terrible as well in a lot of ways.

[GoggleHead]

We need more than just Zealot for President. We need to fill out half of Congress as well.

I think replacing the whole of Congress with BG regulars would be a spectacular improvement. Possibly disastrous, but still an improvement.

[Callisto]

youtube has streaming?

youtube is a piece of shit now anyways so if this is actually somehow related to youtube idgaf.

i guess youtubes is technically streaming, don't really think of that when I hear "streaming". are they really going to charge youtubes with felonies lol? glad we got our priorities straight with this administration though.

I wasn't so confused over that as like youtube/netflix streaming vs live streaming of PPV etc.... I guess they are the same thing when considering this law?

YT has actual Justin.tv/UStream-style live streaming now.