There's a new law soon to be out stating if you upload videos, screenshots, interviews or reviews of any copyrighted content, this goes for music, games and everything else copyrighted, your video will be removed and you'll fined thousands of dollars or 5 years in jail. This will terribly hinder the whole of the internet community, you'll not be notified of new music, games, etc. and you'll be extremely restricted from just about anything. Game companies will have no control over it, only the government. To upload any game content you'll need permission from the game company.
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I hope it gets vetoed to death. This completely goes against the freedom of the internet.
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It is already an offence to publish copyrighted content. The changes are just to make it more of an offence with bigger fines / jail time.
Only need to worry if you ignore the take down notice (as far as I understand) and if you are publishing copyrighted content for financial or commercial gains. ..::LvL does not make any money, in fact it cost me a fair bit - we should be alright :]
You would be put in jail and/or face a large fine IF you upload copyrighted media.
I think there is a big difference.
But I wouldn't worry too much about this. Because they are trying to target people uploading movies and music on the internet. I hear they are targeting You Tube. I think they may leave gaming videos alone because of most people's disagreements.
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Lobbies have way to much influence on politics and the Music and Movie industry are behind a lot of terrible ideas.
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