U.S Government wants to make streaming a felony

[GPow69]

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Please act! This short form takes 20 seconds to fill out and will voice your opinion!
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ten_strikes?akid=700.450896.5hVZPC&r...

Here is the bill, specifically. Read it for yourself to make your own informed decision.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s112-978

Need more information? See UltraDavid's blog entry over at Shoryuken.com here. Very informative: http://shoryuken.com/2011/06/29/trolling-the-stream-by-ultradavid/

More video content about Bill S.978 can be found here by DSPGaming:
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This isn't meant to stop gamers from posting on YouTube, or stream them on stream sites, but the way the bill is worded, would make it a federal offence to upload and/or stream games in the U.S, and would also make a lot of other stuff illegal (Only in the U.S, but that's one of the biggest if not THE biggest content provider in the world for the net), and the internet would basically be dead.

Fill out that form posted above, even if you're not from the U.S, any support will help. This shit's ridiculous. On TMS it'd basically get rid of all new songs posted in the music boards, all the gaming videos, all gaming trailers and footage (Unless uploaded by the company that created the game), and the videos board(s) would probably be dead.

Also spread the word around.. This can't fucking happen..

 

[Panki]

That'd be so fucking gay.

 

[GPow69]

SIGN THE PETITION THING D:

 

[Aman1238]

I signed it. My god are politicians dumb? I don't even wanna bother reading their reasons in the bill. Fucking gay.

 

[Maffia171]

Enjoying your freedom in the U.S I see

 

[Grazy.]

^ Enjoying your what maffia?

Your sentence seems to be cutting off between the words "your" and "in". :troll:

 

[[FF]TeddyBear]

^ Enjoying your what maffia?

Your sentence seems to be cutting off between the words "your" and "in". :troll:

Oh the land of americans, such a freedom land, where everyone has the right to do what they want, until people don't make money :troll:

 

[Mave]

Signed.

 

[[FF]TeddyBear]

I'm actually hoping this bill gets passed, to piss off all the arrogant americans, :troll:

 

[Grazy.]

^ And pretty much kill 40% of the internet.

 

[Fries]

The thing is, I believe this bill is meant to stop people from streaming pirated videos. It wasn't meant to stop streaming music or video games. They may actually change the bill to clarify this if the petition gets recognition.

 

[GPow69]

The thing is, I believe this bill is meant to stop people from streaming pirated videos. It wasn't meant to stop streaming music or video games. They may actually change the bill to clarify this if the petition gets recognition.

Yes, that's all explained in the video, however we should still sign this petition thing to bring it to their attention that it needs fixing before it gets passed

 

[Fries]

The thing is, I believe this bill is meant to stop people from streaming pirated videos. It wasn't meant to stop streaming music or video games. They may actually change the bill to clarify this if the petition gets recognition.

Yes, that's all explained in the video, however we should still sign this petition thing to bring it to their attention that it needs fixing before it gets passed

Oh, don't get me wrong, I signed it