Open Congress Summary: Makes unauthorized web streaming of copyrighted content a felony with a possible penalty of up to 5 years in prison. Illegal streaming of copyrighted content is defined in the bill as an offense that "consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works" and has a total economic value, either to the copyright holder or the infringer, of at least $2,500. Please use this link to speak up! Thank You. http://act.demandprogress.org/act/ten_s ... rce=typ-tw
Who on earth came up with that brilliant idea? How comes the lobbyists of some music companies can even get something like that on an official piece of paper?
So basically no more music on Youtube for you Americans... Good luck stopping the people with money doing anything to your cou try. You'll lose unless yu can somehow be more profitable.
While I support artists getting paid more for their work, it's the record companies that take the majority of money from sales as well as their proposals being far too extreme and often quite vague. Record companies need to die. This new proposal is another extreme idea proposed by some money hungry record company. I have a feeling, however, that this may pass despite protests.
Because most of our government is about 20 years behind the times A lot of politicians don't even know what Facebook or Twitter are You know all those lawsuits RIAA threw around? The artists they were supposedly representing rarely(if ever) saw a dime
And Karaoke. Anyone who sings a song they don't own the rights to becomes a felon unless they have permission. Anyone who plays a game then posts the gameplay is in violation of the law. This goes for competitive tournaments as well as Gmod style video games where people make videos all the goddamn time. I can almost guarantee it won't get passed. I put my name in there on principle though.
Yes, I am well aware. RIAA and the MPAA are nothing more than leeches to the consumer, the artists, and this society and must burn.
can't make felons of everyone. i say keep on streaming till they got you in a chair steaming. i don't care. they're gonna do what they have decided to do already. just do it and don't get caught, or don't do it. it makes sense, there's money involved. the only way to stop this is to convince everyone on the internet to tell them to stop(just an email to your representative), but we're all too busy watching videos of cats and streaming copyrighted materials.
I hope this goes over as well as prohibition did but other than that I might just move to Canada or Sweden.
I liked what NIN did after they told the recording industry to shove it. I believe their first album after going solo was a "pay what you want" type Some ragged about how 70+% chose to pay nothing, but nobody mentioned that the average price paid by the remaining was like $7/8. Out of the 8 digit number of downloads, that's still a healthy chunk of cash that went straight to NIN
Well, I've done all I could. Also, Notch has said that nicer companies can put a special part in their TOS addressing this for their fans. All that's left is if the developers and publishers we know about care about supporting their fans in such a way.
Sucks to be American ! Indie Labels are already the way forward, people downloading illegal music is slowly killing the music industry. Not so much for people like Green Day, 50 Cent, Lilly Allen, Arctic Monkeys and all those big names who will make money no matter what they do now, but for newer smaller bands that want to try and break through. But, you kinda of have to look why people are downloading illegally rather than buying CDs? ...Because CDs are hella expensive.
The guy above me doesn't realize how many people buy music online and therefore is stupid. Also, more money is made with concerts than actual sales.
People are lazy, if downloading a pirated track is easier than getting it legitimately, then they will. People also like control over what they buy, throw on restrictions like needing access to a DRM server to play a song, then no one will want the music. iTunes for the most part is doing it right, and look at it's popularity. Most of their songs have no protection whatsoever, I can play them from w/e media player I want, and even transfer some of them them to my GF's computer who has no internet herself(she buys an itunes card, I get songs via my own computer). One thing that needs to change is that Artists should receive a larger percentage from sales instead of nearly all of it going to record companies.
Guys don't worry this WONT pass as a bill. In worst case scenario they do pass it, but then I am sure ALOT of game company's will add an exception for this rule allowing us to do what this bill stops.
