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Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony

Posted by Unknown on from the share-your-way-to-jail dept.

wabrandsma writes "From the Washington Post: 'You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy that endorsed one piece of the controversial proposal: making the streaming of copyrighted works a felony. As it stands now, streaming a copyrighted work over the Internet is considered a violation of the public performance right. The violation is only punishable as a misdemeanor, rather than the felony charges that accompany the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material.'"

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  1. Why not? by blackicye · · Score: 5, Funny

    They might as well make it a capital offense with a mandatory death penalty while they're at it.

  2. It's lost by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the article:

    Bieber spoke out against Klobuchar’s bill, saying the senator should be “locked up—put away in cuffs” while noting he personally thinks it is “awesome” when he sees fans uploading their own covers of his songs.

    If Justin Bieber is against it, how can it ever pass?

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    1. Re:It's lost by internerdj · · Score: 3, Funny

      Granted, he had nowhere to go but up.

  3. Re:In the land of a million laws by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    We are all criminals.

    1 - Turn all citizens into criminals.
    2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute.
    3 - Make your position inheritable.
    4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.

  4. Re:In the land of a million laws by korbulon · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are all criminals.

    1 - Turn all citizens into criminals. 2 - Be the one in charge to decide which citizens to prosecute. 3 - Make your position inheritable. 4 - Construct large pyramidal tombs in the desert to be remembered forever.

    5 - PROPHET!

  5. Re:Which administration? by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you narrow it down a bit more?

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  6. Dear Republicans by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

    This bill is going to do nothing but help those Hollywood liberals that are destroying America. You want nothing to do with it.

    (just trying to help kill this thing)

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  7. Re:Incorrect Priorities by Jade_Wayfarer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, they're frauds, masking as prostitutes - with them you have absolutely no guarantees to get at least some satisfaction for your money.

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