Look, this bill doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell. Technically speaking, this bill is a violation of the First Amendment's first clause: "freedom of expression". The PATRIOT Act has nothing on this.

The problem becomes: where do we draw the line between "copyright violation", and "fair use"? It's all highly subjective to each person's own threshold, and for me, a law with such ambiguity on enforcement shouldn't even be considered by a legislative body (Also explains why I'm opposed to the immigration laws in Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, etc.). If the threshold is low enough, corporations like CNN, NBC, UMG, and all those with material subject to copyright laws won't be able to upload their own !@#$, which would be pretty &^%$#@! hilarious! And in the brief <5 minutes that a video is on the net, people WILL watch it. That'll be one hell of a job tracking down all the IP addresses that pinged the video, especially if the address is from a public place (i.e. a library) or a proxy (for me, streaming is both uploading and downloading). Our prison system here in the United States simply won't be able to handle that kind of load.

The other problem is how broad the bill is. ANY copyright material could land you in prison, even if it's only remotely related to copyrighted material. Brickfilms use LEGO as their primary medium, which is a highly copyrighted product. If Capitol Hill gets their way, then our very hobby could be at stake.

This bill will only promote the use of P2P file sharing BitTorrent protocal programs like Limewire or Frostwire, which is kinda the opposite of what the industries that would be lobbying for this bill want: more bootlegged content in a place that's even harder to regulate. And seeing as how the law only applies to STREAMING video, an underground network of other media, like VHS/Beta tapes or DVDs, will spring up.

And what about material that can ONLY be found on YouTube? Case in point, the last 24 episodes of Animaniacs have never been released onto a DVD by Warner Bros., and since Animaniacs hasn't aired on TV since at least 2003, there goes 24 episodes of one of my favorite TV shows that I can't find anywhere else...

This bill is bullcrap. Absolute bullcrap. I want to know which congressman introduced this bill so I can hit them with my digital mallet!

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Look at all of the people and companies supporting this bill.

That's never gonna pass. There'll be freaking riots, for crying out loud.

Let me get this strait. If this bill does pass, then we will have to delete all of our brickfilms?

Only if they use copyrighted material, and the damages exceed the amount of money stated in the bill.

If this really does go out, I wouldn't be in much danger.
Incopetech (that's where I get my YouTube music) is not copyrighted not Flashkit (where I get my sound effects)
Besides. 5 years of prison because for THAT
That is quite much. I am not 100% sure this is real.

Yeah. I know that. That would be a problem if this was real. YouTube has seen brick films on YouTube for a long time. They are not going to take them off YouTube now

Last edited by LASF (July 4, 2011 (08:55am))

Okay, I cannot roll out 10 brickfilms during a 180 day period. xD
I'm not sure anyone could do that and still make some good stuff.
So, I shouldn't have a problem.

Oh, boy, that's mad.