Senate Bill could potentially screw Youtube and all of it's members

Wait... web-cam covers of songs? That's a bit fucking harsh, seeing as more than half of the cover songs up there are legit and shouldn't be affected by any copy-right laws.

What an asshole,

As if Youtube isn't already a big enough pain in the arse when it comes to this copyright stuff.

Any video that shows the ending to Driver 2 is muted because there is a licenced song that plays in the background and WMG got all funny about it.

There was even a video where the player completes the final mission and shows the ending movie and the entire thing is muted.

If this passes, I'm more than certain that Youtube will lose most if not all of it's current user base.

A bill like that would condemn Youtube to become a Vlogger and webshow exclusive site with no room for random users with random video's. Shame, really.

I wonder how much money the record labels had to pool together so they could pocket enough senators to even propose this...

Many artist's though will be pissing blood over this. It's the biggest form of advertisement for the lesser known bands and rely on the Youtube community to help spread their shit.

It's kind of retarded that the government can decide this sort of stuff for individual artists. If you don't want your stuff posted on Youtube that's your business, but surely smaller artists should be able to decide this for themselves?

The bill won't pass. I will be extremely surprised and sad if it indeed does pass.

It won't pass but if it does it won't effect any non US residents, fuck America thinking it has jurisdiction over the internet. What about non US bands? Stupid senate.

What about US bands then. What about uploaders who hail from America, this law will affect us. Also, Youtube is based in America so anything that will be uploaded will be scoured to make sure it has no copyright material. And if it does, it's scrapped. So yes, it will affect us.

Shit, that's gonna be problematic then. Stupid US.

Stupid scrabtrapman.

Dupid Kaxter Sing

Taking Youtube as an example, their servers are in the US. They are owned by Google, which is a US company. Thus they have to abide by US laws.

Would Youtube decide to move all their servers to Africa or the moon, this problem wouldn't affect Youtube.

gawd bless americuh

That's what I don't understand. I was under the impression that most of the music companies were more or less happy with the status quo, where Youtube offers to either block the music or give them the revenue from advertising.

lol bollocks

THe music companies wont be happy untill we have to pay each time we listen to a song.. <.<

What's going to happen to OK Go?

OK Went.

Or OK Gone.

What the fuck is the point of this? The current system is good; if a record label doesn't like there shit on someone's video they can have it removed or receive advertising royalties. Is the senate just going to assume that no one wants their songs on YouTube and ban them from being out their?

So who is this supposed to be benefiting?

I think if this does pass there will be a huge outrage considering it's one of the mainstream internet websites that everyone uses.

YouTube will disappear and get replaced with something else like with most P2P sites have done. 'cept whatever replaces it probably won't be as good.

The internet is changing rapidly, and not for the better.

In the last year, several bills and edicts involving internet censorship/restriction have been funneled through both local and national government here in the US. Most of them are extremely vague and generally unconstitutional.

An example off the top of my head; A law was passed in Tennessee recently that makes the exchange of any images that could cause "emotional distress" illegal. Breaking this law could result in a hefty fine or up to five years in prison. The law itself not only treads on the toes of the right to free speech, but what can be considered "emotionally distressing" is entirely subjective. Without specifying the constituents of what the law considers to be distressing, pretty much any image can come under fire. Someone could end up in jail or paying a fine for emailing someone Keyboard Cat if that person happened to find cats playing keyboard "emotionally distressing".