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Forums - Bricks in Motion » General Film Discussion » USA To pass bill to make video streaming illegal
This is delightful.
The Government has bigger things to worry about. I may live in New Zealand, but this is stupid.
-Rob
... 2012 IS the end!
This.
There will be no more BRICKFILMS!
What a riot!
(Lol, get it, riot! There will be riots (most likely) Hah! )
They actually will probably will met with great force if this is passed.
Last edited by Lamplight (July 4, 2011 (12:56pm))
Hello, first of all I am not American. I am Spanish. In the remote case that this law was passed, how this law would affect other countries? Just the videos be banned in the U.S.A. or in other parts of the world?
We can still make movies...just without copyrighted stuff...which will be hard to do.
Just the videos be banned in the U.S.A. or in other parts of the world?
They would be banned from American websites. Seeing as how YouTube and Vimeo are both American based, there goes the two largest video hosting sites.
We can still make movies...just without copyrighted stuff...which will be hard to do.
How is it hard? Just think up an idea that doesn't involve one of Lego's licensed themes and use Incompetech music. That's not too hard. Brickfilming isn't supposed to be extremely easy either, you know.
Last edited by minifig051 (July 4, 2011 (01:04pm))
Yeah, but that means nobody will ever be able to watch any part of star wars ever again without renting the dvd. Nobody will even be able to make their own stories up based on it.
I can't see this happening. It's stupid, sites like youtube wouldn't do nearly as well if there wasn't a single star wars video on it. It'd just fall apart.
By the way, me picking star wars is only one copyrighted thing, I'm just using it as an example.
I really can't see this ever happening, it would spell doom for all the video hosting sites. SO many of the top viewed stuff has to have some copyrighted stuff in it, they can't just take that all away.
Well it won't be hard for me...probably for some other people though.
This is just ridiculously stupid. 
And Filmfire, you are definetly right. Youtube gains a crap load of views from copyrighted material, and as you also said, what if we just want to see, I dunno, a glitch in a video game for example, we'd have to actually possibly go buy the game in the first place and manage to pull the glitch off, thus wasting electricity instead of just watching a 30 second video.
This bill thing, is stupid. As everyone mentioned, no matter what country we live in, we will have basically no place to show brickfilms and the online world, and most of the real world, will die if this bill is passed. I doubt this will pass as the youngins could be sent to do time for posting gameplay of their favorite game.
So, my guess is, it won't be passed.
Never underestimate the American legislative branch. There's been a real push lately to defund Amtrak (without realizing that Amtrak has received less government funding in its entire 40 year history than the Interstate system receives in a single year), PBS, and NPR, all the while giving the most financially well-off Americans breaks on their taxes (millionaires and up I believe). I never thought Obama would've renewed those tax breaks.
Last edited by mcoov (July 4, 2011 (04:37pm))
I think we are all in the clear about our brickfilms. If Lego hasn't done amything yet, then I don't think they ever will.
Yeah, but that means nobody will ever be able to watch any part of star wars ever again without renting the dvd. Nobody will even be able to make their own stories up based on it.
And once again we confuse copyright with trademark. You won't be able to make a Star Wars story using the copyrighted theme music or clips from the films but you will still be able to use the trademarked stormtrooper, clone, Vader, etc minifigs.
sites like youtube wouldn't do nearly as well if there wasn't a single star wars video on it.
Most viewed videos on Youtube are one-hit wonders, cat videos, FAIL Blogs, and videos of people just spewing nonsense. Don't be putting Star Wars on pedestals it don't belong.
If it passes, we'll all have to start being creative on our own. The horror.
I think we are all in the clear about our brickfilms. If Lego hasn't done anything yet, then I don't think they ever will.
Except we have to remove all our existing Brickfilms with copyrighted content...
Which, for me, is basically nothing to remove.
But, as I said, I'm still dearly hoping it won't pass.
First of all, it won't pass, second of all, I'm British.
Lolol.
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