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Goodbye Streaming (streamers could face jail time over DMCA)
- Thread starter ScatheZombie
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Well, yes and no.
There's a certain degree of power and control companies can muster with just 'the threat of' action without ever needing to take it.
Nintendo has already gone after thousands of streamers and often been successful - and this would give them even more legal backing to do so.
And they may not have to go after individual streamers if they can target Twitch, Youtube and Facebook for basically allowing felonies to be committed on their platforms. And then these companies are forced to radically change their platforms, ban users, etc - which Twitch is already starting to do with just DMCA.
The FCC has nothing to do with it. This is basically taking copyright violations from a misdemeanor to a felony and setting up a court to deal with the new law.
Now will it pass? Probably not.
I find it hard to understand this. A lot of the people that actually stream are given the material from the publishers themselves lol.
So who is actually against the streaming of certain material?
I get people streaming paid events, like say boxing matches for people to view for free not being allowed.
So who is actually against the streaming of certain material?
I get people streaming paid events, like say boxing matches for people to view for free not being allowed.
Yeah, I have a real feeling this is what brought this about.
Wouldn't this also include Trump rallies and those Trump supporters that stream them? Once people realize this it will be DOA, no way Trump will pay broadcasting rights fees.
imagine if they use youtube-esque content detectors
"OPEN UP ITS THE POLICE. WE'RE HERE TO ARREST YOU BECAUSE IN YOUR LAST INSTAGRAM VIDEO ABOUT YOUR TRIP WE DETECTED TIKTOK FROM KE$HA PLAYING FAINTLY IN THE BACKGROUND BAR. SURRENDER RIGHT NOW CRIMINAL SCUM"
Has any publisher or developer outwardly supported anything like this? Fuck off...
Sounds like someone that has done a bit of streaming lately... been streaming anything tonight sir?? Come with me.
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I'm not saying that didn't help them gain momentum but... they've been trying to pass a version of this since 2011.
Devolver Digital is gonna dominate the streamings now. https://canipostandmonetizevideosofdevolvergames.com/
But to make it a felony?
Any game streaming done that's not within the confines of Twitch/Facebook/Youtube is going to disappear.
Lol, this is the thing that popped in my head when I read your post.
I Thought This Was America - YouTube
Although... I guess it could go both ways here (if you know what I mean)
i feel like getting a permission to stream in the terms they have in mind would be far more complicated than a publisher having to be openly against streaming a la nintendo or atlus
plus, according to most terms of service people never read before going for a game, streaming is kinda not really permited despite them saying so to the public
Ah well I'd like to see Facebook, who pretty much own the biggest social media platforms in the world, be fine with that. They would probably sign a cheque to make it all go away.
We could almost replace Congress with competing GoFundMe's at this point.
Not for the content holders. But for everyone else - like you and me - yes, yes it does.
Where the F did this come from? This seems like it came from nowhere.
what's really fucked is that literally every video game is a copyrighted work and this has been a ticking time bomb for years, it's just now happening because the RIAA finally caught wind are a bunch of pricks and the us legal system is glacial when it comes to understanding tech. only way out is if Twitch and or individual streamers buy blanket licenses for music streaming to save their ass and only major streamers will be able to afford that shit. it's a racket.
The FCC doesn't make or strike down law.
If this law is passed and signed, there's nothing the FCC could do to stop it. Quite the opposite - they'd be tasked with implementing.
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Better start saving your favourite lets plays to your disks, folks
Soon they will be ILLEGAL, lost media that will be worth more than gold, and the cybercops will be busting your houses looking for the criminal watching John Wolfe playing Amnesia
Soon they will be ILLEGAL, lost media that will be worth more than gold, and the cybercops will be busting your houses looking for the criminal watching John Wolfe playing Amnesia
Yeah, that's the bigger concern. Companies aren't worried about people committing misdemeanor copyright infringement on their platform. No one gets charged with being an accessory to a misdemeanor. But felonies? That's a whole different situation. It wouldn't surprise me if under those circumstances only games that had granted blanket licenses to the platform were allowed to be streamed, and any other games would be banned.
That being said, items are added and removed from spending bills all the time. I'm sure Amazon and Google have lobbyists that are pushing to have this removed.
i doubt game companies are going to actually go after streamers. Its free advertising.
What's the difference between a "let's play a game" video and a "let's watch a movie" video? Games don't hold copyright for streaming and movies do?
I lived in Bangkok for a couple of years and it was a relatively common sight to see Police arrive in bars and clubs asking for the evidence of the licenses you need under Thai law to play copyrighted music in public. No bars paid for that license obviously (they were all stealing the feeds for televised sports, there's no way they're paying for music licenses) and so 'tea money', bribes to you and me, ended up in the pockets of the cops.
This smells of exactly the same type of grift.
So... say if I was living in America, I wanted to stream to my sister (who is in another state at the time) so we could chat over a game together, which is perfectly acceptable on a couch, I'd be doing a felony?
What if I wanted to stream my game to a friend who is better at game than me so they can give me tips? Illegal too?
If so, that's fucking crazy. In a time when we can't be together, to cut a way people be together.
What if I wanted to stream my game to a friend who is better at game than me so they can give me tips? Illegal too?
If so, that's fucking crazy. In a time when we can't be together, to cut a way people be together.
There's definitely stuff to be ironed out but I agree that this ain't it.
Yeah, as fucked as the US government is I'd be shocked if this passed. I feel like stuff like this gets proposed less because they think it will pass or is a good idea and more to just check the temperature or try to sneak one past the goalie.
