The Government Wants To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony

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After solving all the major problems facing our country, our government has turned its attention away from overturning bans on Apple products long enough to focus on the biggest threat to our great nation. :rolleyes:

Last week, the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy that endorsed one piece of the controversial proposal: making the streaming of copyrighted works a felony.
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Just imagine if the RIAA and MPAA spent the money currently allocated for lobbying... On making a product worth the price they're wanting to charge..
 
Yes, because that's what we need - more people in prison for stupid @$$ things. A felony? Really?
 
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Uhhh huhhh....
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Then what do you suggest Orrin G. Hatch? In case you haven't noticed, everyone up to this point that the government has done or suggested is either Orwellian or so far out of touch with rationality, that not only have they lost all credibility with the country as a whole, but the fact that half of their bills are either sponsored by the RIAA or MPAA, or they're completely written by the their Lobbyists themselves. That's like saying letting Steve review an Apple product on [H]ardOcp...chances are it's going to be biased.

There are so many reasonable and logical ways to tackle this problem, but nobody will listen or care, and it will fall on deaf ears because it doesn't serve the corporate interests that the RIAA and MPAA represent. It's all about the quarterly report and bottom line. It's just icing on the cake for me to see that the Obama administration is trying to revive this dead bill again, because it serves as a constant reminder both DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans are just 2 feathers of the same bird.
 
Right.. because now if someone posts something copyrighted on say Youtube and a kid watches that not knowing that it is against the law. Then the parents go to jail, kid go's into foster care. Sounds perfect for the RIAA. Right?

Holy shit the level of stupid here just keeps getting worse.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Silly nonsense individual piracy is not a major problem but large scale duplication with what amounts to nods and winks from national governments is, how about they address that instead of introducing another intrusive law that is bound to be abused by prosecutors. If you think this will stop the RIAA and MPAA abuse practices you are badly mistaken it will in fact encourage them... it is what they paid for

Is there any kind of government overreach you oppose?
 
Obscene. Absolutely obscene. Just another example of how today's government is nothing more than puppets for the greediest private, corporate interests. We need a complete overhaul of the copyright and patent system, from the ground up.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Right and while we are on that derailed train of logic, we should just go ahead and lower the tax rate for the upper 1% to zero so they stop spending money on lobbyists to effect our government so they can get on with things that are a little more important. Like how to run a country with no income and a huge debt.
 
WBurchnall said:
Right and while we are on that derailed train of logic, we should just go ahead and lower the tax rate for the upper 1% to zero so they stop spending money on lobbyists to effect our government so they can get on with things that are a little more important. Like how to run a country with no income and a huge debt.
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I'm okay with that. I need moar spending monies so I can buy better quality foods for my cute little kitty!
 
Budzman said:
Fuck Obama, worst thing to ever happen to this country.
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You're looking at it from too narrow a viewpoint my friend, it doesn't matter who is in office, it's greed and control that is contributing to this absurdity. Fuck Obama? No, fuck corporate impunity to do whatever the fuck they want, and that's dictate policy and influence our politicians through GREED.
 
You cannot shape a market with force. But if you have a government in your pocket you might just try.
 
Well, this would certainly solve the employment problem ... 1/3 of the population would be in Federal Prison ... 1/3 working to support the Federal Prisons ... and the remaining 1/3 doing the few non-prison jobs left :eek:

Seriously though, although the majority of the rights holder may be US multinationals (so I can see the interest of our politicians), the majority of streamers are most likely outside the USA (making a felony for them meaningless) ... also, for someone who actually blatantly violates copyrights by distributing unauthorized materials it is already a felony ;)
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
If they fix it by passing tougher laws
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They can't fix it by passing tougher laws. And, there's no saying they'll be any more profits if they could stop piracy.

But, the way to fix it is to wake up, acknowledge that things are not the way they used to be in the 80's, and get with the program. They still think they can win a war on piracy when there's simply no war to win.
 
Perfect strategy, Riaa, Mpaa, (who ever) wants a misdemeanor or other summary offense, you ask for a felony charge and "Compromise" for what they want, win win for scumbags.
 
just make it the death penalty then everyone will stop doing it!

except not really... I've never understood this whole concept of making something "more illegal" what the fsk is "more" illegal? it's either legal or not, passing "tougher" laws will not make people stop doing it
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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I didn't think ScribbleKat had that much notoriety, but jeez, people are still biting with 'C.U.G.' That kinda makes me laugh, though cynically, while deep inside I weep for the reactionaries. :(
 
Grimlaking said:
Right.. because now if someone posts something copyrighted on say Youtube and a kid watches that not knowing that it is against the law. Then the parents go to jail, kid go's into foster care. Sounds perfect for the RIAA. Right?

Holy shit the level of stupid here just keeps getting worse.
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That's not what the report is suggesting. In your scenario, the person who uploaded the copyrighted material might face some enforcement action. They're really wanting to go after Russian sites that stream movies for profit, but they'll no doubt propose legislation that's much broader than that.

Look, people, copyright law in the United States doesn't work the way many of you think it does. One of the exclusive rights of copyright is the right to distribute a work. You have no right to rip a song and stream it off of your server without some kind of permission from the copyright holder. You wouldn't have the right to play your CDs on your low power radio station, if you had a legal one, without some kind of license for the music. But you can never be charged with anything for tuning in to that low power station. The person "uploading" the copyrighted material violated the right of distribution -- not you.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Yep because the current methods are working so well:rolleyes:
 
if they really want to control people here is a simple way.

Cut off the entire internet and make us back pre internet age. small companies will start thriving again and people will be focused to shop in retail stores.


Sure we will lose decades of progress and companies will have to hire more people.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
That might be a little bit excessive, but something really should be done about all the piracy. If they fix it by passing tougher laws, then RIAA and MPAA will be happy and stop distracting the government from doing other things that are a little more important.
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Our government shouldn't be wasting our tax dollars to fight something that won't help anyone but big business. Big business doesn't help anyone but themselves. It's the lobbying that's driving them to do this.
 
FLECOM said:
just make it the death penalty then everyone will stop doing it!

except not really... I've never understood this whole concept of making something "more illegal" what the fsk is "more" illegal? it's either legal or not, passing "tougher" laws will not make people stop doing it
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That's not true.... if you make it the death penalty, you'll sooner or later kill all that are doing it. Then be left with only people who wouldn't or couldn't.
 
Mexican pork party. I'm on an NSA watch list now.

Anyway , Uncle Sam just wants to shove more of us into the pirate prison system so we can generate more tax revenue as a life long inmate for streaming Game of Thrones..

This world is fucked.
 
Sure, I could go along with with this. As long as they added (via a rider), legislation that makes all contributions (private or corporate) to a politician (campaign fund or other) an act of treason (carrying a mandatory life sentence).
This would totally eliminate lobbyist, and would make political corruption "more illegal" since they seem to like doing things like that
 
Budzman said:
Fuck Obama, worst thing to ever happen to this country.
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Obama doesn't create the law, only signs them into effect. I don't like Obama much, but place blame on the source FFS; the RIAA/MPAA, lobbyists, and the congressman that wrote the law being submitted.
 
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