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Subject Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

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Original Message Supporters of this bill claim that all it's really doing is harmonizing US copyright law's civil and criminal sections. After all, the rights afforded under copyright law in civil cases cover a list of rights: reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works or perform the work. The rules for criminal infringement only cover reproducing and distributing -- but not performing. So, supporters claim, all this does is "harmonize" copyright law and bring the criminal side into line with the civil side by adding "performance rights" to the list of things.

[link to www.techdirt.com]

So basically it states that if you embed a YouTube video that turns out to be infringing, and more than 10 people view it because of your link... you could be facing five years

Well...what should we do about this GLP? Taking suggestions on how to protest this garbage.

"Well,

Now the cops can enter your home without a warrant (see: Indiana supreme court, US supreme court)

The cops can report you and a judge and court will give you multiple years in prison for videotaping them while they abuse peoples' civil rights (see Illinois, Michigan)

The CONgress just renewed the 'patriot' act...

And now CONgress wants to imprison people for posting videos on the internet.

Yup. That is logical progression. Makes perfect sense." - Anonymous Coward

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