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| SOULSEEKER
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Subject: What I've read! | |||||
It is obvious from reading the bill (and you can, too, by checking out this link to OpenCongress, a public resource featuring all of your favorite goings-on in the U.S. Congress) that the measure is all about adding a blanket ramp-up of punishment to streamers without any type of content specification. While the bill was probably written with movies and television in mind -- because let's face it, I don't know how many of our congressmen here in the United States watch a vodka live stream of new Firelands bosses -- the text of the bill is all-inclusive. No mention is made about the media or medium, only a change to the punishment. Where the bill hits on streaming is the "public performance" aspect of the changes proposed to title 18 section 2319, the criminal infringement of a copyright. The right to publicly perform works is one of the rights a copyright holder is entitled to, and streaming these works on the internet falls under that right. Bill S.978 aims to put the public performance right alongside reproduction of a copyrighted work and distribution of a copyrighted work. In essence, the bill aims to make streaming unauthorized works carry a heftier punishment than it did in the past. |
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