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Moe
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I was wondering if anyone had heard of this bill and the possible consequences of it passing in its current form. The bill can be found here.


This is what I see when reading the bill, combined with what I have heard about it. The base idea for this bill seems to be a decent one, preventing movies, tv shows, music, and such from being uploaded(or streamed) online without permission. While such a thing is technically illegal already, this bill would make it the federal governments job to press charges instead of the owner of the material. This would however include everything with copyrighted material, lets plays of games, video of a talent contest where someone sings a song or performs an act from something they didn't write. Currently for something like a lets play the company that made the game could request that the video be taken down, but they don't because such videos are free advertising. This bill seems to point to that ability being given to the federal government instead of the game company. I don't know about you, but such a thing seems a horrible idea to me. Well thats my rant on this bill.

As I said earlier, I was wondering what others think of this bill. Maybe someone has more legal experience than I do(not hard, all I do is try to read laws to understand their limits).

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urstupid404
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also, with reveiwers, playthroughers and other peeps ( yogscast, machinima, etc.) its FREE publicity for the games and the companies...

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