Community | June 03, 2011 | 47 comments

Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony

source: http://Infowars.com

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Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.
According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.
Read Masnick’s article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet.
As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons.
If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media.
It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material.
It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation.
Here is the full text of the bill.
Addendum
It should be noted that outlawing certain activities on the internet is instrumental to the Obama administration’s copyright policy.
In March, the White House’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, provided Congress with a White Paper (available for download here), outlining a series of the Obama Administration’s recommended legislative changes to combat online piracy and counterfeiting.
“Significantly, the recommendations include making it a felony offense to stream infringing content and giving Federal agencies wiretapping authority to obtain evidence of criminal copyright and trademark offenses,” David Makarewicz wrote for Infowars.com on March 17.
Obama’s emerging policy on streaming media dovetails with his administration’s effort to seize web domains. The Department of Homeland Security now arrests web site operators under its “In Our Sites” program.
“On the pretext of protecting intellectual property from infringement and counterfeiters, it’s about fast-tracking Internet distribution and information technology rules to subvert Net Neutrality, privacy, and personal freedoms – global rules for unrestricted free trade, undermining universal, affordable free access, civil liberties, legitimate commerce, and the right of sovereign nations to go their own way,” writes Steve Lendman.
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In addition to outlawing video streaming, new legislation “would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information. The proposal [the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] also bans ‘anti-circumvention measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime,” imposing consequences for opting out,” a Wikileaks document disclosed in May of 2008.
So-called “secondary copyright liability” will be used to criminalize what is now routine behavior on the internet. It will also be used by the political establishment to eliminate the internet activity – primarily in the form of alternative media – of those who oppose what is shaping up to be a totalitarian state.


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47 comments // Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony

  • August_K
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      August_K  

    • Simple, if some of these entities are worried about copyright infringement,
      then DON'T PUT YOUR SHIT ON THE NET or on YOUTUBE. Problem solved.

      The rest of us will continue sharing.

    • 12 months ago
  • dalistuff
  • Gravity_Man
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
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    • I been busy embedding videos all night all day everday forever on millions of free floating clouds good luck elitist scum-bags and we will destroy you and scratch you out cause before we would've been kind and let you exist but I think we all know that just won't be able to happen cause who wants you ...nobody YOU are the misfits YOU are the Enemy You are our problem and you will be fixed!

    • 12 months ago
  • hombre76
  • figgdimension
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    • WTF... these frickin a-holes have gone so far right it's worse than Fascism it's Nazi Leave Our internet ALONE its not Good for the people for the digital world for the Last bastion of real reporting and free speech,free thought... we must not let them do this at all costs and all means time to go into serious action and a step up our operations to the next level ourselves and go into hyper mode!
      Stop the Copyright Nazi's Now!
      Thanks Bundle for the heads up!
      voted /\
      see this crap bundlebear?
      http://current.com/news/93263456_the-gops-environmental-wish-list-is-horrifying-...

    • 12 months ago
  • bundlebear
  • Dusty_King
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      Dusty_King  

    • I'm SO sorry you sad sorry son's of a bitches in Congress, but we have this kooker nutter thing called the 1st Amendment, I have a feeling We the People are getting pretty god damn tired of you fuckers in DC pulling a "Germany 1935" (you don't have any more rights or freedoms left). So while you idiots still have jobs I suggest you stop while you are behind.

      Seriously, you fucking idiot Congress worms have gone so far our of your way to make average Americans lives miserable and nearly unlivable. You will not get your walking wet dream of a Neofeudalist state of the uber uber rich and the poorest of the poor. Don't ever think we will let it go that far. Are we clear?

    • 12 months ago
  • NiceN
  • KB723
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • KB723:

      When emdedding is against the Law only outlaws will have video

      When guns are against the Law only outlaws will have guns

      When laws are against the Law only outlaws will have laws

      When marriage is against the Law only outlaws will have inlaws

    • 12 months ago
  • KB723
  • figgdimension
  • 40blanco
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      40blanco  

    • ppl need to understand that no matter which president is in power NOTHING WILL CHANGE havent yall realise that already. Each president beelongs to a blood line thats always been in power and they will put the new world order in place, i mean look at america codex alimentarius, the patriot act come on ppl when will yall wake up! theirs ppl behind the president telling him what to do

    • 12 months ago
  • KB723
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XhhTF7vRM

      On the one hand the RIAA and the MPAA would agree with making embedding a felony since their obsession with keeping a stranglehold on copyrights is as an intensely held belief as General Ripper's "purity of essence" in his "precious bodily fluids"

      And that sharing copyrighted videos on YouTube is as a heinous a crime as "fluoridation of the drinking water" which "nuclear winter" is a just punishment for those acts.

      OTOH it is still necessary to consider the source since infowars also stood by a story about census workers putting GPS missile tagets on people's doors.

      http://www.infowars.com/census-gps-a-missile-at-your-door/

      So the gripping hand is even though the credibility of the source is very low, the plausibility of this partucular stoory is higher from the previous actions to enforce copyrights and even a broken clock is accurate at the right time.

      Whether or not they would be able to make those felonies stick with arrests or enforce any penalties without having the charges dismissed is another matter.

    • 12 months ago
  • figgdimension
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • eden49
  • samthesixth
  • figgdimension
  • samthesixth
  • madammarsh
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      madammarsh  

    • On Inauguration Day 2009 I stood in my living room and said the Pledge Of Allegiance for the first time since I had to in grade school. I lit a candle and wept with joy, believing that at last someone worthy was going to sit in the Oval Office and honestly undertake the business of America and pursue true justice and civil rights for all. I knew that no President is able to deliver on all campaign promises or to be all things to all people. But in the intervening years, while giving credit where it was deserved and occasionally feeling inspired again by Obama's words and reassured that his motives and actions are honest and positive, I have had more and more misgivings. Too many creepy stories about Barack Obama that could as easily have been about Dick Cheney. Too much secrecy, too much spying, too much interference, too much yanking back on the freedoms I thought he represented. While we (rightly) freak out over the actions of the Koch-purchased legislature and state governors, the President, who should be standing up to that crap, is seemingly falling right in with it and actively inflicting controls on us that will in the end deliver us to a structure as oppressive and evil as any in the Middle East or headed by Mao, Stalin or Hitler. That day I felt such hope and pride seems like a very long time ago.

    • 12 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
    • madammarsh:

      We are in agreement and I'll add the constant war-mongering and mass fraud cover-ups on Wall street and Mortgages Foreclosure-gate has ruined so many families so many communities ruined it's a travesty to Democracy and to our country itself I feel cheated and abused by these so called democrats ...I won't be fooled again

    • 12 months ago
  • hombre76
  • figgdimension
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    • hombre76:

      I love seeing your Icon Comandante Che' Gueverra a true hero of the poor and down -trodden I've been reading a lot of what ever I can find of his diaries and "A revolutionary Life" Its amazing and enlightening on so many levels a true human of the highest form Im in awe of his inspiring life and legacy a salute to a hero of the common man . Thanks for bringing me back home Che' and thank you Hombre for giving me a moment to express my thoughts on this wonderful man.
      comrade
      G. pic of a piece by Bansky in L.A.

    • 12 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • Just another step closer to getting rid of net neutrality and not letting us get at the information we need. More Big Brother BS. Police state.

    • 12 months ago
  • CalgarC
  • figgdimension
  • CalgarC
  • CalgarC
  • SIBob
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      SIBob  
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    • The political/corporate alliance doesn’t like the fact that we are bypassing the lie machine. Their attempts at propaganda are circumvented by immediate internet criticism, neutralizing their attempts at mind control. The cat is out of the bag. How can we go back to the way things were? We have to commit ourselves to communicate regardless of the medium, snail mail and paper if necessary. Our first response, however, should be to hit the streets, this should not be allowed to happen. We have to use this oppression to rise out of our slumber. In NYC today, even the firemen were out in force, (15,000), to protest budget cuts. We can’t let them get away with it. Fight back, we have all had enough. http://sibob.org/wordpress/

    • 12 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
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      PoliticalAmazon  
    • SIBob:

      I still use snail mail to contact people who I want to convince to do what I want them to do (i.e., corporate sponsors of Fox, Congress, etc.) because it makes a much bigger impact--because it takes more time and effort (and money) to produce and send.

      Some politicians' offices have a policy that mandates they keep snail mail on file, but doesn't specify what they can do with email and faxes.

      Snail mail, from the point of view of government control of the internet, has one very good thing going for it: you can burn it and the government can't go back into your computer and reconstruct it.

      Who knows? Maybe in the near future, snail mail will be the savvy way to send information you want to remain out of government hands. It's a lot harder for the government's intelligence goon squad to sift through billions of snail mails than it is to have a filter that, in minutes, sift through the same number of emails.

      Just sayin'.....

    • 12 months ago
  • SIBob
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    • PoliticalAmazon:

      If opportunities shrink in one area, they will increase in the other. The important thing to me is that reaching out into the internet community has revitalized my faith in progressive causes. Before this I was beginning to think that like-minded people were few and far between. There are a lot more out there than I would have believed. If they think that they will shut us down, they better think again. Print journalism is going through a crisis because of the internet, maybe it will make a comeback. I don’t, however, think that going backwards is an improvement. It would be a stopgap measure until the time that the political/corporate alliance comes to the conclusion that attempting to control and censor opinion is not going to work. http://sibob.org/wordpress/

    • 12 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • dugdog47
  • Arishia
  • noxidereus
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      noxidereus  

    • One day we will tell our grandchildren about the days when information was freely shared on the internet as they look back at us incredulously.

    • 12 months ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • noxidereus
    • +1
      noxidereus  

    • This is part of the effort to silence our voices and keep us ignorant and afraid. Ignorance is the only thing keeping the current power structure in order. If people start to know too much, it's going to negatively impact the plutocracy and the rich and powerful do not want to give up what they have. Their only power is our ignorance. If they give us a chance to overcome our ignorance, they risk the nice little scam they have going.

    • 12 months ago
  • dugdog47
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • dugdog47:

      Or, worse, committing information by sharing information in a way that has been done by millions for years.

      You know what? I think the MSM and other news-video distribution services will stop this. It has become a source of advertising revenue.

    • 12 months ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • letsliveinpeace
  • bundlebear
  • letsliveinpeace
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