
| 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.
------ 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 |