Embedding YouTube Videos may become a Felony!

[Acid Trip]

Ruh roh!

Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony
Infowars.com
June 2, 2011

http://www.infowars.com/embedding-youtube-videos-may-soon-be-a-felony/

Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.

According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.

Read Masnick’s article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet.

As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons.

If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media.

It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material.

It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation.

Here is the full text of the bill. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s112-978)

[Muddy]

Jesus Christ man... When will it end..?

[Acid Trip]

Jesus Christ man... When will it end..?

My sentiments exactly

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Jesus Christ man... When will it end..?

October 21st, 2011 :tup:

[AntZ]

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. CORNYN, and Mr. COONS)


I wonder what party they belong to? :-k

[Hal-9000]

it's a horrible practice (http://tehbasement.com/showthread.php?1830-The-Hal-9000-Groove-Factory) and I agree!

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.

According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.
Read Masnick’s article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet.

As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons.
If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media.
It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material.
It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation.
Here is the full text of the bill. (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s112-978)

Addendum
It should be noted that outlawing certain activities on the internet is instrumental to the Obama administration’s copyright policy.


In March, the White House’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, provided Congress with a White Paper (available for download here), outlining a series of the Obama Administration’s recommended legislative changes to combat online piracy and counterfeiting.

“Significantly, the recommendations include making it a felony offense to stream infringing content and giving Federal agencies wiretapping authority to obtain evidence of criminal copyright and trademark offenses,” David Makarewicz wrote for Infowars.com on March 17.

Obama’s emerging policy on streaming media dovetails with his administration’s effort to seize web domains. The Department of Homeland Security now arrests web site operators under its “In Our Sites” program.

“On the pretext of protecting intellectual property from infringement and counterfeiters, it’s about fast-tracking Internet distribution and information technology rules to subvert Net Neutrality, privacy, and personal freedoms – global rules for unrestricted free trade, undermining universal, affordable free access, civil liberties, legitimate commerce, and the right of sovereign nations to go their own way,” writes Steve Lendman.

In addition to outlawing video streaming, new legislation “would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information. The proposal [the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] also bans ‘anti-circumvention measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime,” imposing consequences for opting out,” a Wikileaks document disclosed in May of 2008.

So-called “secondary copyright liability” will be used to criminalize what is now routine behavior on the internet. It will also be used by the political establishment to eliminate the internet activity – primarily in the form of alternative media – of those who oppose what is shaping up to be a totalitarian state.

[Muddy]

repost, sucka..

http://tehbasement.com/showthread.php?7279-Embedding-YouTube-Videos-may-become-a-Felony!

[PorkChopSandwiches]

dammit, i looked too

[Muddy]

Hahaha.. It's like 2 down from yours.. :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

hahaha, i just looked again and even went to page two to check, Im fuckin retarded

[Arkady Renko]

actually it should be a felony when the damn things won't embed.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Get ready to merge ;)

[PorkChopSandwiches]

*merged*

[Softdreamer]

Music should never be allowed to be controlled by 'companies', it was created by artists, and should be free to all those who would listen.

[Hal-9000]

so if I don't pay to see a vid on youtube, how is it a felony to link that vid to another site?

does youtube somehow lose the traffic hits?

I'm sooo confused

[DemonGeminiX]

Shit like this just makes me want to quit the web altogether.

:|

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfh92mII3-3l9TGGz_8yNn-TGf7PVrwobreXZ5WwlDsNfykLEr&t=1

[PorkChopSandwiches]

http://www.ghettoredhot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/still-cant-quit-you.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

:ghey:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

thats what you get when you search "i cant quit you: :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

:-k

So that's how foolishly lovesick teenaged girls get so damaged.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:lol: And gangsta's

[Softdreamer]

"homies"

[Dr. Girlfriend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNDssR-w90

This thread needed an embedded video.

[Softdreamer]

He looks like he studied "Rex-kwon-do"

[Dragoness_Cutie]

This is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. It's not like you can't get back to the original video on YouTube by going through the embedded one, and it's stupid that I could get in trouble because I linked/embedded a video. That is fucking RETARDED! So I hope that if this does get passed, that YouTube gets rid of the embed tool beneath all the videos, at the very least.

[Softdreamer]

How could it be enforced on websites based outside the US..

Its another example of profit becoming more important than art or expression