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Flammie
#228914
1 year ago
Ain't nothing gonna break my stride
Nothing's gonna hold me down ohwooaah!
I GOT TO KEEP ON MOVIN!!
Flaskgarg
#228917
1 year ago
This makes radios illegal...
ChiefRampancy
#228926
1 year ago
$10 says this bill doesn't get passed.
Bags
#228934
1 year ago
Don't they try (and fail) to pass things like these all the time?
Anonymous
#228937
1 year ago
Remember s.3809? This isn't going to be passed, no politician would want to deal with the backlash if something like this happened. This would completely change copyright law, and I can't think of anyone who would want to rewrite that from the ground up.

Granted, this is all going off of this post, because I can't seem to find the video.
feather
#228956
1 year ago
alright so: posting MLP videos are already murky territory; distribution of copyrighted material, remixed or otherwise, is already technically in violation of copyright unless it's for purposes of commentary or review of said work. Hasbro just doesn't raise the issue with Youtube. Same goes for music videos, both for the ponies and the music itself unless you own said song. as for fanart, Fanart is protected under freedom of speech. As long as you produce the fanwork, you're entitled to distribute it as you see fit, as long as you don't claim to own the property on which it was based. you may also have to give credit for the original work to the copyright holder, but that may just be a Cover-Your-Ass thing people do.

so to reitterate: posting pony videos: already technically violating copyright, posting music videos: already technically violating copyright. Fanart: protected under first amendment.
Anonymous
#228959
1 year ago
Really? Who's going to fall for youtu.be? This is sutpid.
Turin_Aramaia
#228972
1 year ago
Feather: Sites hosting fanart using Harry Poptter characters were shut down through Cease-and-Desist orders. WB did not want competition. They did the same for Tiny Toons and Animaniacs fanart.

This is an anti-competition bill, would tear apart what makes the Internet work in the US. It will fail.
Anonymous
#228973
1 year ago
You will be fine? So what's the problem?
Rayo
#228974
1 year ago
WELL DONT FUCKING DO ANYTHING IF YOU THINK THIS I STUPID. GET UP YOUR LAZY ASS AND FIGHT!
Anonymous
#228975
1 year ago
Never gonna pass. Even if it does, enforcing the law would be a nightmare. Police don't have the time, resources or manpower to keep track of the amount of stuff being uploaded BESIDES the MLP stuff.
Drasvin
#228979
1 year ago
@feather Though all one has to do to be able to legally post the MLP videos is get Hasbro's permission. And given how much the free-distribution of the videos caused the fanbase to explode in size, they would be idiots to turn down the requests, especially since the main purpose of the show is to advertise the toy line. Unless Hasbro was working on a boxset, then it would make since for them to decline requests.
Turin_Aramaia
#228984
1 year ago
a couple of thousand dollars per offense.

>I hate netbook keyboards SO much.
Craft
#229001
1 year ago
No, this isn't what the bill says.

The only thing the bill changes is making it illegal to "publicly preform" copyrighted works.

That means it would be illegal for you to stream episodes or go to the center of New York City and start playing official episodes over a television.

In other words, everything that we've already been doing that is illegal (uploading videos to youtube for example, and yes, that is illegal, we're just lucky Hasbro doesn't care.) would now be illegal to do in real time on a TV or Stream even if you weren't recording it.

Fanfiction, remixing music, drawing and displaying your own art would all still be COMPLETELY LEGAL.

TL;DR Bill is bad, shouldn't pass. But all the statements this image makes are BS.

P.S. This bill doesn't really impact our fandom at all, but other scenes like all the Lets Players out there, or the SC2 streaming scene would all be fucked by the bill, so even though we're not impacted it is still a good idea to go out and spread the word about this bill. Just make sure it's the accurate word, alright?
Rayo
#229007
1 year ago
^I read the Loop hole is very easy to stop everything.
My uncle is Lawyer he says that this shit will be everything not just streaming video
Craft
#229010
1 year ago
^ Everything else is ALREADY illegal Rayo. This bill doesn't change that at all.
Anonymous
#229016
1 year ago
IANAL, but the way the bill is written, it sounds like it only addresses live streams and repeat offenders. I remember a few months back, the feds went after some websites that were streaming every major sports event in America. They're the likely targets of this bill, and compared to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a kids' show on cable is hardly worth the FBI's time. (Plus, the way Hasbro has embraced the online fandom, I can't see them caring enough to press charges. The show is pretty much a loss leader for the toys.)
Craft
#229018
1 year ago
^^Just to clarify, by everything I mean uploading official episode videos or distributing pirated copies of the episodes on burnt disks or something.

Just want to make sure everyone completely understands, the use of copyright in parodies or satire is free game.

Since you can define all fanart, fanfiction and music remixes as a parody or satire that's all on the up and up. Official content is the only thing that this bill applies to.
Anonymous
#229019
1 year ago
And pretty much everything I said has been said already. That's what I get for not refreshing before posting.
feather
#229024
1 year ago
#228972 *types Harry Potter into DA and gets 350,000 hits*

yawp.
Anonymous
#229071
1 year ago
So I am fine and gO to jail
BGPony17
#229272
1 year ago
So has anyone behind seven proxies checked out the http://youtu.be/ site and reported back on just how big a phishing site it is?
Anonymous
#229280
1 year ago
The bill wouldn't just afffect those who have uploaded My Little Pony episodes, it would affect everyone who uploaded things illegally. Which means entire cities would end up going to jail, causing the economy to collaspe completely.
Shintaha
#229412
1 year ago
But I'm already fine!
Shadowflame
#229538
1 year ago
Obviously it's not going to pass because the US doesn't own the entire internet, hence of it being "the world wide network." american laws cannot affect the internet because it would also affect the other countries that would use it, which could possibly be interperated as a cyber invasion. So if america doesn't like something affiliated with the internet, all they can do is stfu, glare at their screens, and deal with it.
Anonymous
#230155
1 year ago
Sadly i'm not american and i can't help. BUT.
I would like to point that this law is slef mutilating, as we got already attuned to such flow of extra material on any given argument(thatin some case improve very lousy stuff. Without fanvideo who would have remembered "300" nowadays?). And in some case for people outside USA is the only way toa ccess to stuff(why the fuck so many video network are not accessible outside us hell even european Itunes do nt have all the contents i need...fucking useless program). I doubt we would lovely and gracefully go back to stone-age just because faceless corporations(because this is the feelings) say so. We would fight, even if it means cracking, hacking and endelss ripping as much as we can in way we and they can hardly imagine(they were same persons who tried to stop ripped song to be uploaded and we all know how well it worked.)
Anonymous
#233747
1 year ago
Already passed bros.