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>Consider the absurdity of that concept. Categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as committing murder. Printin
by jml7c5 6y ago
>Consider the absurdity of that concept. Categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as committing murder.
Printing funny green pieces of paper is a felony too. I get the rhetorical effect you're going for, but it's silly to pretend that all felonies are as severe as murder.
- CGamesPlay 6y agoAlthough to me "categorizing the re-transmission of someone else's imaginary property in the same bucket as counterfeiting currency" also has a pretty strong rhetorical effect.
- swebs 6y agoThey're both pretty similar actually. With money, its just that the government owns the copyright.
- spacemanmatt 6y agoIf we're really going to conflate counterfeiting currency with streaming then I'll get out the ketchup and my finest silver to stick a fork in the very well-done HN.
- swebs 6y agoWell the magnitude of offense is of course completely different, but counterfeiting bills is just a form of copyright infringement.
- bawolff 6y agoCounterfeiting currency on a massive level would devalue the currency, cause hyperinflation, wipe out everybody's savings. Taking away everyone's savings and breaking the economy would probably indirectly cause a large number of suicides. So i still think its not comparable to that either. Not to say there aren't other felonies that are probably stupid.
- curtainsforus 6y agoThe free flow of information via streaming on a massive level would cut into Disney's profits. So it's much worse.
- runawaybottle 6y agoExplain a felony every time you go looking for a job. They played games like this with marijuana, we dumped people in jail or tarnished their public records. Decisions like this are not inconsequential and impact lives once codified. Don’t play these games over streaming video sites.
- Buttons840 6y agoOne difference is a 4 year old can't accidentally counterfeit currency. However, there is a real chance that a 4 year old could post a picture. If only prosecutors were blindfolded, administering "justice" evenly and blindly, without regard for political fallout: "It doesn't matter who posted this cat picture, they must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Oh shit, it's a 4 year old, this isn't going to make 'the land of the free' look very good."
- JoBrad 6y agoDoesn’t justify the legislation, but I believe the streaming has to be intentional, and is directed at companies.
- emiliobumachar 6y agoI haven't read the law, but I'm a priori very skeptical of "directed at" reasoning in law. After it's on the books, it will be used to go after whoever the prosecutor wants to go after, subject to their constituents and vested interests with access. Only a couple years ago they were prosecuting teen couples for child pornography for having nudes of each other.
- snicksnak 6y ago> Printing funny green pieces of paper is a felony too Exactly. End the Fed.
- TheHypnotist 6y agoSame bucket. Not "as severe as".