Jail time for streaming?!??

This is what I have to say to that...

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There's one more problem and that's that the bill is currently awaiting review by the senate. (Unless I'm mistaken about "senate calendar day 77" having not passed, but it appears to be sometime in July) Your link allows us to write to members of the house. While that might provide you with more immediate representation, it might be best to hit the first body up to approve the bill first. This currently isn't even on the house's docket. (Provided I'm reading the actions log correctly) Pending approval in the senate it would be. IE: Might it not be better to see that it never passes in the senate first?

Also these are the specifics of the bill:
An "offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works," the bill states.

That does not seem so unreasonable to me though if I had one gripe it would be this: Why a felony and not a misdemeanor?
 
Here's an e-mail I received from Demand Progress, a group that focuses on fighting issues like this...

Friends,
Here they go again: Big business's lobbyists are on another offensive against Internet freedom. A "Ten Strikes" bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content -- like music in the background of a Youtube video -- more than ten times is flying through Congress.

Will you email your lawmakers and urge them to vote no? Just click here.
As the writers at TechDirt point out, under this bill you could go to jail for posting video of your friends singing karaoke:
The entertainment industry is freaking out about sites that embed and stream infringing content, and want law enforcement to put people in jail over it, rather than filing civil lawsuits.... We already pointed to one possibility: that people embedding YouTube videos could face five years in jail. Now, others are pointing out that it could also put kids who lip sync to popular songs, and post the resulting videos on YouTube, in jail as well.​
That's right: Ten strikes and you could get jail time. A month ago, the Hollywood industry magazine, Variety, reported, "Industry lobbyists pressed House members on Wednesday to pass legislation that would make illegal streaming of movies, TV shows and other types of content a felony...."

Only weeks later, the MPAA is getting its wish.
Will you email your lawmakers and tell them to vote against the Ten Strikes Bill? Just click here.

Thanks for continuing to fight for Internet freedom.
-- The Demand Progress team
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HajimeOwari said:
Here's an e-mail I received from Demand Progress, a group that focuses on fighting issues like this...
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Your strikes reset every 180 days. Seriously, the bill is perfectly reasonable.

"YOU COULD GO TO JAIL FOR POSTING VIDEO OF YOUR FRIENDS SINGING KAROKE!"

Typical scare tactic. An ounce of common sense shows otherwise. The bill does not eliminate fair use laws, nor would that constitute a usage with clear intent to profit. They fail to mention any of these stipulations nor the reset cycle. The ones most in arms about this are the pirates, and they're doing a lot to whip people up with misinformation.

Don't get me wrong. I love my anime fansubs, but I won't abide a liar.
 
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