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DJ_Paradroid
#228888
1 year ago
We-ell some of us aren't American. But that does seem pretty darn harsh.

Oh America, you so crazy.
Anonymous
#228894
1 year ago
I must be living under a rock
Anonymous
#228895
1 year ago
A smaller resolution would make this much more likely to be read?
Walkinix
#228899
1 year ago
important message y u b absurd resolution?
Anonymous
#228900
1 year ago
I'm not American, but it saddens me to see how you slowly (?) police-state yourself into some 1984-ish hell.
Flaskgarg
#228904
1 year ago
This won't pass for a couple reasons, one of them being that it makes playing music in a public place a felony. Anyone that desperate for $5.95 to arrest people for playing their music in a public place doesn't deserve to be listened to.
Anonymous
#228905
1 year ago
it wont pass well youtube wont accept it becuz 95% of what utube is is stolen music fanart tv series and shit so thats one..plus weve been doing illegal shit on the internet since like the 90's its the american way to do stuff agianst the law soo yeah thats my opinion
FRiNKEL
#228906
1 year ago
From remixes, from other ideas, emerge newer and original ideas.
This bill could stop the creative flow of many people and could prevent tons of original content, pony or not.
Coquette
#228907
1 year ago
Eliminate things trying to spread the popularity of the product.

Progression, ho.
Flaskgarg
#228908
1 year ago
YEAH WHAT ANONYMOUS SAID!
FUCK THE POLICE! STAB YOUR NEIGHBOR! ALL IN THE NAME OF AMERICA!!!
seapony
#228910
1 year ago
"I'm here because I killed a guy."
"I'm here because I drew a pony."
Beatlepony
#228912
1 year ago
If congress passed this it would be like signing away their next election
Anonymous
#228913
1 year ago
^ win
Walkinix
#228915
1 year ago
#228905

It may be Youtube's majority, but it's not it's huge moneymaker, so they'd probably be glad to downsize... But regardless, the US doesn't own the internet, so this law can't be enacted
Rayo
#228916
1 year ago
WELL DONT FUCKING DO ANYTHING IF YOU THINK THIS I STUPID. GET UP YOUR LAZY ASS AND FIGHT!
Prixel
#228918
1 year ago
``I have a scar carved in my Arm for every man I have killed``
``I have a tattoo of Fluttershy on my Ass. Life Sentence due to the fact I`ll always have it.``
Beatlepony
#228919
1 year ago
btw I already emailed my congressman about this.
Anonymous
#228921
1 year ago
The US doesn't own the internet, but it can police internet activity within its own borders. Technically, the crime is taking place on your computer. If your computer is physically within the US, then you can go to jail.

Anyone who thinks this can't pass is kidding themselves. Entertainment companies are putting millions of dollars of support behind this bill, all because they're paranoid of copyright infringement.
Rayo
#228922
1 year ago
^thank you
Anonymous
#228923
1 year ago
either way #228915 it wont be good for them it would be gay tube then
Flaskgarg
#228925
1 year ago
Why does the US have to be retarded all the time?
Do we have a quota to fill?
Anonymous
#228931
1 year ago
^^ Youtube actively seeks out people who post copyrighted stuff and bans them NOW. The only reason they don't ban everyone who posts copyrighted material is that there's too damn many of them, so instead they wait until the rightsholders complain.

They'd be thrilled if this bill passed, it would make their jobs much easier.
Wrongness
#228935
1 year ago
This seems extremely unconstitutional to me.
Bags
#228938
1 year ago
This won't pass. Lawmakers aren't that retarded.
seapony
#228939
1 year ago
Wasn't there a threat of something like this a few years ago?
Bags
#228940
1 year ago
In fact, this has been "trying to be passed" for at least a year now. That's when I first heard of it.
Turin_Aramaia
#228944
1 year ago
Yes, it'd be political suicide, but businesses would not be losing money to digital sharing and copyright thieves.

OTOH, even if the idea is original, businesses can claim they had the idea first and that you stole from them before the idea was launched, or worse, they would claim they have invented the idea first and held the idea in private. Patent and design trade would suffer badly. They might disband Linux, Open Office, even gimp claiming that they are thefts of UNIX, Microsoft Office, and Photoshop. This would eliminate competition of digital products owned by large corporations, forcing us to shell out huge bucks since there would be no competition to drive the price down.

No. I'm against it.
Bags
#228945
1 year ago
And it would hamper the spread of ponies.

That's important too!
Bags
#228946
1 year ago
Regardless, if this was passed I think we'd have more people in jail than out of jail.
Anonymous
#228949
1 year ago
"Lawmakers aren't that retarded"

I beg to differ...
seapony
#228951
1 year ago
In this world, "Red" (from Shawshank Redemption) would have to smuggle toy ponies in.
Bags
#228957
1 year ago
Why would they pass a law that, if properly enforced, would end up fining or jailing the majority of the populace?
Flaskgarg
#228963
1 year ago
I had to break my one year free of facebook to send this out to people...
I feel like the internet is just using me.
I wouldn't mind if facebook became illegal.
Drasvin
#228964
1 year ago
I saw this a while ago on the escapist. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111133-New-Bill-Makes-Illegal-Streaming-A-Felony
According to the article on the Escapist, they're not going to be worrying about non-profit streams.
Drasvin
#228969
1 year ago
Also, even if this did pass, I doubt it would halt the spread of ponies. Just means those up loading MLP videos will have to get Hasbros consent first, and given how much free-distribution of the videos caused the fanbase to explode in size, they would be idiots to turn down requests to host the videos unless they have boxsets in the works.
Rayo
#228977
1 year ago
WELL please DONT FUCKING DO ANYTHING IF YOU THINK THIS I STUPID. GET UP YOUR LAZY ASS AND FIGHT!
Anonymous
#228978
1 year ago
Bags: I've seen how this works, don't underestimate them. I work in an industry that is directly affected by many of the recent regulations Congress has passed... the irony is that they weren't acting on behalf of consumers (despite what they said)--they did it because another group of corporations sunk millions of dollars into lobbying them, lying through their teeth that it would benefit regular people when in reality all it would do was increase their own profit margins. If they think they can make more money off it they will never give it up; if it fails, they go back to the drawing board, wait until the next year and bring it up again with a new spin campaign to convince people that what they're doing is good for the common man. This is what America has become: Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations, with the Supreme Court's 5-4 blessing every time someone stands up to them. After all, they're our "job providers", we must do everything possible to accommodate them.
Bags
#228981
1 year ago
Oh good, they finally changed it to be "for profit only" and not "IF YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING (even accidentally) THAT YOU DID NOT PAY FOR YOU WILL BE JAILED"?
Anonymous
#228990
1 year ago
Fuck the government, I would laugh my fucking ass off if every one of those worthless pieces of shit dropped fucking dead in the most horrible way imaginable, fuck love and tolerance these bastards can burn.
feather
#228991
1 year ago
can we call posting politics on ponibooru trolling? because seriously . . .
Sevireth
#228992
1 year ago
oh boy oh boy
theyre gonna outlaw doing something ON THE INTERNET

whatEVER shall we doo~
Bags
#228996
1 year ago
CREATE A DUPLICATE INTERNET AND PRETEND TO USE THE ORIGINAL INTERNET.

It's the perfect plan.
Craft
#229004
1 year ago
Reposting this on this image to since everyone else has done the same.

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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?
Anonymous
#229084
1 year ago
I am fine, and I get to go to jail what a wonderful world I live in where I am not only hit on but I go to jail too
Anonymous
#229172
1 year ago
Canada FTW