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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.'"

2 of 398 comments (clear)

  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. 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!