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>This affects platforms, not users. Illegal streaming will not be a felony. Creating a for-profit platform with intent to do illegal streaming will be. That is

>This affects platforms, not users. Illegal streaming will not be a felony. Creating a for-profit platform with intent to do illegal streaming will be. That is already a crime. It's called Commercial copyright infringement and comes with rather extreme. This is even in international law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agre... My read of this proposed bill is that it's not misleading. Illegal streaming by users becoming a felony. No different than what SOPA was proposing. Willful infringement becoming a felony is their goal and they will achieve it.

Mindwipe 6y ago
Criminal copyright infringement didn't cover streaming previously.
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  https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/eight-defendants-charged-running-two-largest-illegal-streaming-services-us https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/eight-defendants-charge... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/16/men-plead-guilty-running-illegal-streaming-services-with-more-content-than-netflix-hulu/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/16/men-plead... https://torrentfreak.com/movie-pirate-pleads-guilty-faces-five-years-in-jail-forfeits-millions-of-dollars-191126/ https://torrentfreak.com/movie-pirate-pleads-guilty-faces-fi... I think it did. The Jetflicks (essentially bootleg Netflix for $10/month) founders plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement and money laundering just recently. There was also a case covered on TorrentFreak of someone in Nevada running a similar scheme who just plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement.
- sleepysysadmin 6y ago
  >Criminal copyright infringement didn't cover streaming previously. Why not?