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Wow… this would be fucking scary… watch this film (and if you are American)…
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
“DMCA isn’t good enough because you can appeal claims, we need something that is stronger and would punch out piracy with a steel bat”
not just if you’re american, these would very heavily have an impact beyond US borders.
fairly recently, every single League of Legends video accross youtube was pulled due to copywright claims. this is damaging tons of people’s abilities to make ad revenue while they wait for the appeals to go through (and every one will go through, League of legends is a free to play, team based, player vs player with few variable sets for it’s currently two game types (which each have their own specific arena/map/location each)
the way most of these are usually being written, is easily compared to
piracy is not theft, theft removes and steals the original from one’s possession to your own.
piracy makes a copy.
this is pretty much the strongest example we’ve seen in awhile of a bil being pushed too far into law when people are not educated enough to have an informed stance on the matter.
LOL