Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming



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How about the affected industries just adapt already, jesus. Everyone else has.

Isn't this the 3rd or 4th push for more internet regulation to come out of Obama's office? Guess you have to pay your debts on the most expensive presidential campaign in history somehow.
 
Streaming: The government wants to make sure that, as online piracy moves increasingly to streaming, the law keeps up with the activity. Currently, "reproducing" and "distributing" copyrighted works are felony charges, and they cover peer-to-peer file-sharing. But streaming seems more like a "public performance"—and holding a public performance without a proper license is not a felony.

As Espinel's paper notes, "questions have arisen" about this distinction, and those questions "have impaired the criminal enforcement of copyright laws." She wants Congress to "clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances."
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OMG they're going to outlaw porntube!
 
.Hack said:
If they outlaw tube sites there WILL be a civil war.
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Perhaps, but every adult webmaster (aside from those who own the tube sites) will rejoice; and it will perhaps be a great time to enter the adult webmaster community. There would suddenly be a big opportunity.
 
Elections have consequences. The Democrats are in the back pockets of big record, cable and movie companies. This is the result.



Thank the sheep for swallowing Obama's load of hope and change.
 
It's bound to happen eventually bros. Download all the free shit that you can you broke ass bitches. "What, I actually have to pay for products people paid millions to create now! Blasphemy."
 
popeye said:
Elections have consequences. The Democrats are in the back pockets of big record, cable and movie companies. This is the result.



Thank the sheep for swallowing Obama's load of hope and change.
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its better than being in the pockets of cock sucking warmongers. I'm not a fan of hollywood, the unions, or big pharma, but I'll take them all day long over the 700 club, enron, halliburton, the coalition to arrest brown folks, and other right wing fucks.

People who voted for Obama aren't necessarily sheeps, sometimes it really is about the lesser of two evils.
 
content protection is an important issue for those that create it, and I hope that in their effort to help copyright holders.. that they don't make the matter even worse. the DMCA opened up the loopholes for tubes and other content sharing formats, when it was supposed to help expedite infringing content removal. all it did was take away the incentive of the site owners to monitor uploads proactively.
 
conv3rsion said:
its better than being in the pockets of cock sucking warmongers. I'm not a fan of hollywood, the unions, or big pharma, but I'll take them all day long over the 700 club, enron, halliburton, the coalition to arrest brown folks, and other right wing fucks.
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Obama has raised military budgets and given no-bid contracts to Halliburton.

McCain called internet piracy a "global epidemic" that we needed to "crack down" on.

The "IP Czar" position was created by the approval of Bush and nearly every Republican or Democrat member of congress. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were two of the few who didn't vote for it.

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