Pirating Streamed Content to Become Felony
The CASE Act Is Just the Beginning of the Next Copyright Battle
This Disastrous Copyright Proposal Goes Straight to Our Naughty List
US Passes Spending Bill With CASE Act and Felony Streaming Proposal
Start asking questions about how this impacts alt-tech and how it solidifies big tech. Can alt-tech use distributed networks if they're overrun by pirates? Can alt-tech generate revenue when their sites are clogged with prated content? What will be the legal expense of running a node on a distributed network as part of an alt-tech platform like lbry?
Copyright laws are not there to counter the pirates, they are there to counter you.
Don't forget in 2012 there was a SOPA Copyright Law so horribly bad that the Tech Giants (who weren't compromised by UN and CERN yet) joined the people to repel it off.