If a pair of bills on Capitol Hill, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP, pass, you could be fined and thrown in jail for streaming (i.e., "performing") your video game speed runs or game play. Just as people post cute pictures and videos of themselves, their pets and their kids singing and dancing to copyrighted works, gamers of all ages routinely post pics and stream video of themselves during game play. All of these things have, for the most part, been considered "fair use" under the law. Tens of thousands of videos currently available online featuring game play from popular games like Call of Duty, Halo, Starcraft and others could be made illegal under these laws.
Read more about the SOPA bill and why you need to help try and stop it:
This will affect everyone who loves to use the Internet. Do not let the fools in Congress take away the freedom that is contained within the Internet! Sign the petitions, pass the word, call your local congressmen, and do whatever you can to stop this bill!
Also the US Department of Justice wants to make it illegal to lie online. This includes using a false name on Facebook. I lost the relevant article, but holy crap is that stupid.
Also the US Department of Justice wants to make it illegal to lie online. This includes using a false name on Facebook. I lost the relevant article, but holy crap is that stupid.
Makes you wonder what sort of idiots we really have running this country.
Oh, now you have tread into my territory. I am a card-carrying government watching activist and have signed so many petitions on issues my fingers are bleeding. I could not wait to sign the petition you posted and will add this to my list. Thank you so much for presenting this to the Forum. We must fight these infringements vigorously. Take care and thanks again.
Also the US Department of Justice wants to make it illegal to lie online. This includes using a false name on Facebook. I lost the relevant article, but holy crap is that stupid.
No one would object to sending liars to prison - if they start on the politicians who break their election promises
That, coupled with the abuses by police (violently beating peaceful protestors saying they're "armed" (in this case, meaning they're linking arms forming a chain), throwing flash bangs into crowds trying to help the injured, treating protestors worse than our enemies in Afganistan and Iraq, and corrupt politicians being 'bought' by companies..
Someone said yesterday the best thing I can think to sum up the current situation..
"The right to assembly is being crushed; the Internet is on the verge of censorship; the legislative body of the most powerful nation in human history has declared pizza a vegetable. We are no longer citizens, we're the sane inmates in an asylum run by psychopaths and sociopaths."
