http://www.zeldainformer.com/2011/0...make-you-a-felon-thanks-to-new-bill.html#more
Sounds like fun. YAY GOVERNMENT!
Sounds like fun. YAY GOVERNMENT!
Upped Copy Right Laws
- Thread starter Bacon Boy
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Oh, United States Senate. y u so silly?
So, karaoke/lip sync videos and user-generated concert videos could potentially be covered under this Bill? Wow. Imagine all the 13 year olds uploading Justin Bieber concert videos shot from their cellphones (inb4 nook praises the imprisoning of justin bieber fans) being jailed for five years. That's seriously ****ed up.
So, karaoke/lip sync videos and user-generated concert videos could potentially be covered under this Bill? Wow. Imagine all the 13 year olds uploading Justin Bieber concert videos shot from their cellphones (inb4 nook praises the imprisoning of justin bieber fans) being jailed for five years. That's seriously ****ed up.
Psychonaut
Senior Member
if this passes, it proves that the government knows jack-all-**** about anything.
streamers gonna stream, pirates gonna pirate, 13 year old kids gonna be 13 year old kids.
i really doubt people use youtube as an alternative to cd's.. however, youtube downloading software/add-ons are a valid point. still, that's a drop in the bucket compared to people who download and share thousands of songs constantly.
government vs the world, heaven or hell, let's rock.
streamers gonna stream, pirates gonna pirate, 13 year old kids gonna be 13 year old kids.
i really doubt people use youtube as an alternative to cd's.. however, youtube downloading software/add-ons are a valid point. still, that's a drop in the bucket compared to people who download and share thousands of songs constantly.
government vs the world, heaven or hell, let's rock.
Popular YouTubers, let's take the likes of RayWilliamJohnson for example, make on average about $700k per year... Guess it depends how much the "certain amount of money" is.
Internetakias
Senior Member
I hope this doesn't pass.
Does the goverment know how the internet works? Think of it this way, a person with a youtube channel for say...video game music and remixes is really doing well.If this law passes all that music goes away along with countless other sources of music, video games, and pretty much all electronics from other people.They dont seem to be thinking this through that well.
Popular YouTubers are not the average YouTubers.
Also this law is dependent upon the copyright holders choosing to enforce their claims. If "let's plays" and the like serve to advertise the publisher's game for free, why would they want to have the videos taken down?
Either way, that Ray William Johnson guy is a grade A ****.
True, but there are also popular YouTubers who make let's plays... Take TobyGames for example.
I was thinking the same thing in regards to copyright holders choosing to enforce the claims, it seems like it'd be a stupid move by them if they chose to disallow all videos of their game on YouTube, you see comments on all let's play videos people stating how they're going to buy the game because of the insight the let's play gave them. I think the whole thing is just going to fall flat on it's face.
But yes, I agree that Ray William Johnson is a ****er, but I was simply pointing out the amounts of cash these YouTubers can make.
EDIT: Just to add on to the reason why I think this will fail... Aren't YouTube also signing a bunch of contracts stating that any songs and such used on YouTube videos will have advertisements placed on them that give a portion of the revenue to the artists/developers/whatever? I really don't see why this would count as copyright infringement if the owners of the copyright are being paid.
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After clicking through several links, I came across this article that sums this up pretty well:
http://shoryuken.com/2011/06/29/trolling-the-stream-by-ultradavid/
There are a lot of what-ifs concerning whether or not an individual uploading video game content would be sued/prosecuted under this bill, but the language definitely seems to be there (at least from my understanding... of this guy's understanding.) Also, one of my senators is a sponsor of the bill (damn you Klobuchar! I'm voting against you in the primaries in February now, suck it.)
http://shoryuken.com/2011/06/29/trolling-the-stream-by-ultradavid/
There are a lot of what-ifs concerning whether or not an individual uploading video game content would be sued/prosecuted under this bill, but the language definitely seems to be there (at least from my understanding... of this guy's understanding.) Also, one of my senators is a sponsor of the bill (damn you Klobuchar! I'm voting against you in the primaries in February now, suck it.)
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