US Congress: The End of "Let's Play" and Gaming Stream videos?

[QuantumEagle]

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&rd=1&t=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7-vSrp6y8&feature=feedu

Yikes.

The bill is meant to make streaming digital copyrighted materials (film, music, games). If passed into law, bill S. 978 will require all internet users who have uploaded anything with copyrighted content must take down any video with copyrighted content. Yes, it includes your gaming videos.

So if you have a test video of a new event on Blockland, sorry, you must take it off of YouTube. Made a walkthrough of Portal 2 or gave an awesome soundtrack from Left 4 Dead 2 on the internet? Sorry, those must go down to. But that's not the worst part.

The REAL bad part of this all is how it makes uploading these types of entertainment anywhere on the internet punishable. If the bill does pass, you may not upload new content with copyrighted material in it.
What does this mean? Eksi wants to post the new part of his Chocolate Bar Tennis videos, he must recieve permission directly from Eric Hartman. Found a new feature on World of Warcraft you'd like to share? Send a letter to Blizzard as you need exclusive permission for posting it. Decide it's not worth the trouble to ask for permission? If your video or content gets streamed over 10 times, you are faced with either a hefty fine of a few thousand US dollars or a jail term not exceeding 5 years. Just think: IGN and Gamespot collapsing overnight.

And not only gaming videos. If you still have a video of your freshman years where you sung one of Lady Gaga's songs, that counts as well.

This bill was meant to only protect upload and access to things like TV shows and full movies, but it only states "the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright".

Though I AM in Hong Kong, I am still unsure whether or not this affects me since YouTube and most other entertainment sites are situated in the United States.


So yeah, bill S978.

Yikes.

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Third topic I believe.

[e-maxx]

oh sure don't do anything that would help end REAL crimes

[asablief]

wow

forget politics and everyone in it
shouldn't they be focusing on more important stuff than video games on youtube?
loving morons

[Pacific]

This is the third…loving…thread…on this single loving bill..

It will never pass, stop moaning.

hnnnnnnnnnngnngngngngnnngngng g

[e-maxx]

This is the third…loving…thread…on this single loving bill..

I will never pass, stop moaning.

[QuantumEagle]

This is the third…loving…thread…on this single loving bill..

I will never pass, stop moaning.

Better safe than sorry.

[Nickelob Ultra]

This is the third…loving…thread…on this single loving bill..

I will never pass, stop moaning.

Trust me, there will be people who will try their hardest to get it passed, and those people are the giant corporations who have huge pulls with political party members.

[Frostbyte]

So what happens if you upload stuff from a country out of the US? Im in Canada so I may be safe.

[e-maxx]

plus we have major gaming companies on our side

[Frostbyte]

I sense rebellion.

[asablief]

if this passes I think every single person in america should make a youtube account and post thousands of lets plays

[e-maxx]

I sense rebellion.

lol a bunch of fat nerds rampaging the whitehouse

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Civil disobedience go.

[HelplessNobb88]

It will not pass, unless everyone in the U.S is complete forgettard. What dumb ass did this? The game developers were not bitching about it, and they were not plagiarizing it.