Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
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Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#2This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point.
Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#3This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point. Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/127...
Sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), cosponsored by 14 senators (9 Democratic, 5 Republican).
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#4This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point. Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/127... Sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), cosponsored by 14 senators (9 Democratic, 5 Republican).
The same John Kennedy who lectured Zuckerberg? :/
It's really annoying. I want to be on his side and then this happens
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/127... Sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), cosponsored by 14 senators (9 Democratic, 5 Republican).
The same John Kennedy who lectured Zuckerberg? :/ It's really annoying. I want to be on his side and then this happens
Never trust a politician. They will always let you down.
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#6Not enough of us acted last time and we got stuck with the DMCA.
Let's act and get others to act so we can avoid this atrocity this time.
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#7> any Internet user who uploads a copyrighted work could find themselves subject to a largely unappealable $5,000 penalty
Shared a viral amateur video? I understood that this law would allow a troll firm to contact the video creator and offer to sue you and all those that did so.
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#8This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point. Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
I'm not too fussed, I'll just keep using this to point out the absurdity of intellectual property and we can make sure it doesn't come back after western society collapses.
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#9(from outside of US) The article looks like written on the assumption that every Internet user in US is automatically an infringer. Are copyright infringement so popular there?
Re: Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law
#10This type of shit has been pushed for about 10 years at this point. Who the hell wrote the bill, get them out of the Senate immediately.
I'm not too fussed, I'll just keep using this to point out the absurdity of intellectual property and we can make sure it doesn't come back after western society collapses.
I don't understand this viewpoint.
Do you really think there should be zero protections for creative works? That authors who spend years writing a book shouldn't be able to sell it?† How many movies would get created in such a world? How many software developers would exist?
I am all for reducing protections of intellectual property. I think copyright should expire after a few decades at most, with much broader and more powerful fair use exemptions in the interim. But eliminating copyright completely? I think that would severely limit the amount of artistic output in the world.
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† I recognize that authors would still technically be able to sell their books in a world without copyright. However, they would have to compete with others who just copied and pasted their text, which amounts to the same thing.