New Bill Makes Illegal Streaming A Felony
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My main concern with this is that I watch a lot of tournament streams for Street Fighter and Marvel VS Capcom 3. If this is going to be a "permission needed" sort of thing, it's fucking stupid, but I imagine Capcom will allow it.
We in the UK do it as well, but I guess this doesn't affect us. I'm just waiting for Ultradavid (a Shoryuken.com contributor) to do a write up on this bill. He said he would a few weeks ago.
We in the UK do it as well, but I guess this doesn't affect us. I'm just waiting for Ultradavid (a Shoryuken.com contributor) to do a write up on this bill. He said he would a few weeks ago.
That's only maybe 1% (2% if you're feeling generous) of actors that make that, and ONLY on major studio blockbusters. The overwhelming majority of actors make between $100-$150 per 16 hour day and are lucky to work one week per month (speaking as an actor here). Out of the millions of actors out there, only about 5% actually make their living off of it. 1% of those are the big-money stars.DJDarque said:
Dis is de Scapist, people are always confused :3CoverYourHead said:
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I'd love for a prosecuter to tell me I'm not paying for what I watch online. I pay for the internet and I even pay for cable. Any streaming source generally sucks so I download. If they want to legislate against people streaming things I've really got the wrong idea of what America was founded on.
Wow. Just when I thought government couldn't manage to deep-throat business any harder...
However, this isn't actually going to affect you - you can watch whatever you want free of prosecution. This is just going to affect people who put streaming content on websites.
However, this isn't actually going to affect you - you can watch whatever you want free of prosecution. This is just going to affect people who put streaming content on websites.
Wait... So we knew it was illegal before hand, but its now being made a felony. I'm pretty sure this is what Limewire did when they got busted and hated, so to me this all seems arbitrarily pointless.
They dont make much profit (only on their own things, like sayings and such, not on the characters they portray), and they open most every single episode by saying its a copyrighted affair and that you should support the official release. Plus if you watch one of their episodes, its so jumbled and un-useful its not even the full thing.SuperMse said:
Look at all the government intervention needed to keep the unwieldy capitalist economy running. The free-market advocates speak against intervention but cling to it themselves. The hypocrisy can be explained: They only shun intervention when the intervention is directed at them.
Kenjitsuka said:
Starcraft streams might count if Blizzard decides to go after them.
The key is "intending to profit". Any prosecution will have to prove the intent.
