Yep, that's it, if this Bill S.978 passes, no more "Let's play" or any other type of video, stream or any other type of broadcast, either internet or television can use images, pictures or any other type of material from games, cool heh, it just puts half of the internet into Jail!

The bill itself
www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s112-978

And a place to act against act.demandprogress.org/letter/ten_strike...ZPC&rd=1&t=1

Also, this refers to America (yeah, they suck as usual) If the video streaming site is located outside the states, its untouchable (long live Europe)

And a video about it, from a guy I see on YT


SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME

ive seen this aswell! husky was talking about it the other day to, thing is it only goes for the USA it wont count for any other country around lets plays will still be there from i.e sc2 vids and you will still see lets plays from yogscast and such.. what will happen is those video's will be blocked on youtube for the usa

atleast thats what ive understood from it

thats the most retarded bill ive ever heard, no way will it get passed

Thats good news for all EU server providing companies then? As many sites will move out of US, or atleast users of US sites will move to EU or most likley UK server providers. In other words they are gonna lose companies or costumers if that bill passes..silly US still dont understand internet wich they created...

Liquid Snake wrote:



Yes, its true, if there was an youtube capable site outside the USA, this bill is completely useless, problem is, maybe even youtube cannot hold these type of videos or any other video that may contain copyrighted material, written, video'ed, uarever.

So, anyone with enough money to promote and create an yt like video site in europe, may be next trillionaire, maybe even FB will be doomed if it contains directly served videos (except linking)

They are americans, people with mind problems.

Gimp wrote:



You have no idea of bill's passing to law in that country...

There is another one weird in california, against plastic guns, gotta find it, its also hilarious.

Johannicus wrote:


Actually, the creator of the internet was actually an English man... he didn't copyright it or get patent protection, the Americans came and stole it from him and then copyrighted it over him.. now Americans get the credit for it when really they just stole it. (Actual creator: Tim Berners-Lee)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

Anyway I kind hope it doesn't pass because then YouTube will be sucky, but another benefit may be that YouTube will move their hosts and services to Britain/UK and will then be known as a British site

Tunes wrote:


suppose lol , an lol plastic guns , they did somethin similar in uk, bb guns cant look exactly like real guns or somin

Gimp wrote:


Yes I've seen this also, BB guns have to be a bright warm color (Red, Yellow or Orange) and "AIRSOFT GUNS" have to be a bright cold colour such as (Blue, Cyan or green)

Pretty good law, means you cant get muddled up anymore HAHA anyway, still stupid

One thing is for sure, americans will sunk into their massive stupidity of ruling things this way FFS