Every one please go here and send a letter to your congress man about bill s.978

I am AWARE THAT NEWS ABOUT THIS BILL HAS BEEN POSTED I AM ASKING YOU TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT


everyone has heard about the bill s.978 by now so i won't explain it but follow the link below and send a message to your congress man and help get it stopped
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/ten_strikes/?source=fb

 

Sent.

Heres what it basically says there:
URGENT: Congress Wants To Make Streaming A Felony

Tell Congress to oppose S. 978, the new "Ten Strikes" bill

Here they go again: Big business's lobbyists are launching another attack on Internet freedom. Senators are considering a "Ten Strikes" bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content -- like music in the background of a Youtube video -- more than ten times.

As the writers at TechDirt point out, under this bill you could go to jail for posting video of your friends singing karaoke:

The entertainment industry is freaking out about sites that embed and stream infringing content, and want law enforcement to put people in jail over it, rather than filing civil lawsuits.... We already pointed to one possibility: that people embedding YouTube videos could face five years in jail. Now, others are pointing out that it could also put kids who lip sync to popular songs, and post the resulting videos on YouTube, in jail as well.

That's right: Ten strikes and you could get jail time. Less than a month ago, the Hollywood industry magazine, Variety, reported, "Industry lobbyists pressed House members on Wednesday to pass legislation that would make illegal streaming of movies, TV shows and other types of content a felony...."

 

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And do we just send it to our state senators?

 

I'm sure it's not against the rules, he's just being a troll... I would not click on any link without knowing what it is also...

But I do not approve of this Bill, in a way I see why they are doing it, but is it really necessary?

 

This Bill is ridiculous! It is not only taking away our freedom, but destroying the music that livens moods. Furthermore, the greedy artists are trying to take as much money as they can hence this is a reason why they are doing this.

Cheers

 

i understand the concept which is to stop pirating movies but it is going to rape the music/video game industry

 

Keep on-topic guys.

 

i think this bill is really stupid.. like arent there bigger issues then this? also the bill wont pass because if it does thats the end of machinima and im pretty sure they wont let that happen

 

If this bill gets passed, Youtube is seriously screwed over.