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White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-that'll-work-out-fine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The White House is concerned that 'illegal streaming of content' may not be covered by criminal law, saying 'questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works.' To resolve that ambiguity, it wants a new law to 'clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances'""

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  1. Civil law, not criminal law. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Copyright infringement is supposed to be CIVIL LAW, not CRIMINAL LAW.

    If the USA is to continue this trend of criminalizing everything under the sun, then perhaps the next thing we need to criminalize is when elected and appointed government officials violate the US Constitution. Let's make that a felony.

  2. Scarier is wiretap by redelm · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Streaming" is mostly a clarification of law, much more threatening is the authorization of wiretap, perviously allowed only in "serious" cases and terrorism.