1. #1
    FuzzyDunlop
    Poster of the Month October 2015
    FuzzyDunlop's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-15-11
    Posts: 2,422
    Betpoints: 61

    White House wants to make 'illegal' streaming a felony...for users too.

    The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

    Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20...#ixzz1GiVvx9eM

    What party is this?

  2. #2
    Cuse4tw
    Sharp Square
    Cuse4tw's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 03-16-10
    Posts: 2,895
    Betpoints: 144

    this is so ******* stupid....but its america...the land of the free

  3. #3
    daneblazer
    Most Well Rounded POY
    daneblazer's Avatar SBR PRO
    Join Date: 09-14-08
    Posts: 27,837
    Betpoints: 5652

    Economy in shambles, Middle East on the verge of all out war, the Pacific devastated and a nuclear meltdown is likely...

    at least we're worried about the important things

  4. #4
    FuzzyDunlop
    Poster of the Month October 2015
    FuzzyDunlop's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-15-11
    Posts: 2,422
    Betpoints: 61

    How does one become a suspected user without the government having a blank search warrant on any computer on any US based ISP? Why a felony for code when it's a misdemeanor if I go to Best Buy and walk out with a DVD?

  5. #5
    jgilmartin
    jgilmartin's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 03-31-09
    Posts: 1,119

    Quote Originally Posted by daneblazer View Post
    at least we're worried about the important things
    LOL exactly.

    This is a homeland security issue, how exactly? Someone watching a homemade music video on YouTube is now a felon who has given the government probable cause to wiretap them?

  6. #6
    FuzzyDunlop
    Poster of the Month October 2015
    FuzzyDunlop's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-15-11
    Posts: 2,422
    Betpoints: 61

    Entertainment is really the only product left that we make here and export.

  7. #7
    Optional
    Optional's Avatar Moderator
    Join Date: 06-10-10
    Posts: 57,812
    Betpoints: 9255

    "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."

    Wow, elected officials really do think the people are very dumb to trot out a lame line like that.

    Desperate attempt to protect the receding power of the broadcast companies.

  8. #8
    FuzzyDunlop
    Poster of the Month October 2015
    FuzzyDunlop's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-15-11
    Posts: 2,422
    Betpoints: 61

    Of course they'll get the green light from the ISPs that are mostly owned by ******* cable TV companies.

  9. #9
    samgurt
    samgurt's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 05-31-10
    Posts: 2,980
    Betpoints: 90

    what a joke. better not ever pass

  10. #10
    Shelton
    Shelton's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-06-10
    Posts: 400

    i a effin joke this is only in america

  11. #11
    iifold
    Update your status
    iifold's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 04-25-10
    Posts: 11,111
    Betpoints: 1774

    I swear you guys think everything should be free...

  12. #12
    FuzzyDunlop
    Poster of the Month October 2015
    FuzzyDunlop's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 01-15-11
    Posts: 2,422
    Betpoints: 61

    This isn't an issue of free or not free. I don't feel bad at all for the record industry that worked together to gouge billions from the American public during the CD era, only to settle the class action for $143M. link or for the motion picture industry that is owned by parent companies that own cable companies that, through extensive lobbying, control the internet in 91% of online American homes, while the cable companies monopolize every town they offer service in on a municipal level.

    The issue is that these megacorps that control the pipeline of how supposedly free citizens get information will gladly cough up info on any customer that is paying inflated cable rates to a government that they paid off for the rights to the monopoly.

  13. #13
    tripleblack1705
    tripleblack1705's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 09-06-10
    Posts: 362
    Betpoints: 938

    well, i'll be going to jail then, haha yeah sureeee.

  14. #14
    ChileCheese
    ChileCheese's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 11-07-09
    Posts: 1,957
    Betpoints: 256

    funny country you boys live in

  15. #15
    KingKolzig
    KingKolzig's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 02-02-10
    Posts: 5,550
    Betpoints: 487

    that only applies to social class/personality. if k.barry uses it they wont even look his way

  16. #16
    jonmic
    jonmic's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 09-25-06
    Posts: 685
    Betpoints: 9062

    another way to bring the little man down

  17. #17
    Killer_Demo
    209 Street-Tough
    Killer_Demo's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 06-15-08
    Posts: 8,409
    Betpoints: 4201

    wow their so much other sh!t they need to handle and they worry about this?

  18. #18
    TexansFan
    TexansFan's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 09-06-06
    Posts: 3,365
    Betpoints: 211

    Good thing there's no other serious concerns to worry about.

  19. #19
    louisvillekid
    slummin it
    louisvillekid's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 08-14-07
    Posts: 9,255
    Betpoints: 3822

    Quote Originally Posted by FuzzyDunlop View Post
    How does one become a suspected user without the government having a blank search warrant on any computer on any US based ISP? Why a felony for code when it's a misdemeanor if I go to Best Buy and walk out with a DVD?
    exactly.
    government got to find better shit to do than to worry about possible illegal streaming of vids

  20. #20
    Emily_Haines
    Emily_Haines's Avatar Become A Pro!
    Join Date: 04-14-09
    Posts: 15,888
    Betpoints: 15319

    What else would you expect from an organization that bows down and worships corporations. Give them every tax break under the sun, export our jobs over sea so they can hire cheap labor and make everything illegal so citizens have to buy their shitty products.

  21. #21
    King Mayan
    STFU AND SQUAT PUTO
    King Mayan's Avatar SBR PRO
    Join Date: 09-22-10
    Posts: 21,325
    Betpoints: 3679

    Quote Originally Posted by TexansFan View Post
    Good thing there's no other serious concerns to worry about.
    That's your party, bro..... Looking out for the bigwigs and turning the back breaking workers against each other....

  22. #22
    pavyracer
    MOLON LABE
    pavyracer's Avatar SBR PRO
    Join Date: 04-12-07
    Posts: 82,189
    Betpoints: 410

    The White House is doing an excellent job. First the went after the loud volume in commercials. Now they go after stealing TV.

Top