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okay guys the other day i made a video
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regarding the
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kerfuffle that's going on right now and
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and to a lot of people this is like
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a really terrifying thing that the
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concept that
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streamers uploaders are going to be
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facing
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felony charges and prison time if
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there's a dmca
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complaint filed against them and the
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fear is of course it could just be for
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the most superfluous of things
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they're streaming some copyrighted music
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is played for whatever reason in the
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background
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by somebody they're interacting with on
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a video game or maybe their phone rings
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whatever the case may be people are
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concerned that now
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they're going to go to prison because of
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uh
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dmca claim
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that i'll reiterate that is not the case
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this is
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all based on this bill that is sponsored
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by
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senator tom tillis and others talking
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about
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turning certain dmca violations into
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felonies
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now i'm going to link to you guys the
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original video i made on this it's right
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the link is in the description i'm going
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to give you guys some more details here
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as well because
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obviously judging by the comments and
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the continuing conversations online
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there's still a lot of confusion
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but i'm going to link the original video
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here in it i read to you directly from
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the bill itself this is not hearsay this
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is not stuff that's been
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bandied around social media from the
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bill itself
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okay this bill speaks directly
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and only to pirate sites
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websites that are set up strictly and
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solely
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for the express purpose of
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posting copyrighted materials typically
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movies
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could be music tv shows anything else
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now what's important to note here and
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and by all means go to
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the when you go to the link i give you
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to the original video
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not only for the video go into the
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comments section first of all i have a
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pin post there to explain more
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but also there have been several
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questions i've i've been answering as
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they've come in
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which might help to explain things for
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you but here's the deal
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this bill is complete unless you're
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going to operate a pirate site it is
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completely
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separate from any existing dmca or
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copyright
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issues complaints so on and so forth so
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what i'm saying and this is where the
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confusion comes in
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this will not add anything to any issues
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you may have
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yes dmca complaints particularly over at
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twitch
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are an issue this is not going to
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alleviate them
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it's not going to exacerbate them it is
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an entirely separate thing
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now some people have expressed concern
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that well it's a slippery slope
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whenever you whenever you create more
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legislation or stiffer
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penalties for these types of
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violations it's just an easy step
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to coming after the individual that's
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not true
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the one thing for listen this bill by
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law
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because it so explicitly states what the
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purpose is
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is a standalone issue now if i'll bet
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you money
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tom tillis senator tillis or most most
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anybody in high positions of government
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in
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our in the states right now even have
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any idea of what's going on with the
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dmca complaints at twitch that's not
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typically their purview it's not stuff
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that they're up on
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they have no idea that going on this is
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them this
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is simply an attempt to stop pirating
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sites and yes
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you know the big motion picture
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companies music companies
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they give a lot of money to politicians
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but
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trying to stop pirate sites i don't see
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in any way shape or form and up
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and basically it's always been illegal
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to run a pirate site it's just now they
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want to make it a felony charge
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i don't see an issue with that this is
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not a slippery slope
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nobody's interested in coming after the
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little guy i've seen
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nothing to indicate anybody is
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interested in coming after the little
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guy
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and if they were it can't be based
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off this bill it would have to be an
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entirely new
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standard an entirely new bill an
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entirely new
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concept and trust me you're not going to
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get any kind of support
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for putting small time individual
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streamers
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and uploaders in prison because there
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might have been some copyrighted
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music or content in their stream or in
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their video
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nobody's looking to do that there's a
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process for that we already have an
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existing process
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if somebody feels their copyright's been
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violated we know what the process is
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and they can take you to court over it
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there's no impetus for anybody to go
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after individuals as felony offenders
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there just isn't guys i mean and trust
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me i'd be
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i'll be the first one to call government
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out when they're doing egregious things
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but this is just simply trying to stop
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the big pirate sites that's what puts a
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dent into the music companies and more
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so into the movie industry that's that's
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where they're after
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this is not a slippery slope it's a very
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specific bill
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looking to get rid of a very specific
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group
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of people who are doing nefarious things
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that are costing a lot of money to
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movie industry to the movie production
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companies
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that's it now and again this is what's
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important
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because i'm saying this has nothing to
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do
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with exacerbating your dmca concerns
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those concerns remain
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that's its own separate issue again if
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you've
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had your twitch account removed because
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of some reason because
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of something that played for 10 seconds
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during your stream
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that's a problem and i think in a lot of
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these cases that i've been seeing
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if and when somebody does take it to
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court they're going to have everything
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reinstated because
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copyright law i can make a separate
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video on this at some point if you guys
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want
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copyright law does address things such
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as
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incidental copyrighted material being
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within another work
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and anybody who's being hit for
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incidental copyrighted work
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being within their stream yeah that
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they have no i don't believe anyway they
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have no
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the the production company has no legal
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right to come after you for it
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a lot of copyright law is kind of vague
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fair use law is extremely vague and i
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believe
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that in the case of fair use that is by
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design
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because they want to take these things
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on a case-by-case basis
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so yes there's a lot of going
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on but this specific tillis bill
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is not going to make things worse for
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you and you are not
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as an individual you will not
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be going to prison because of a dmca
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complaint filed against your stream or
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your video
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period and it is not a slippery slope
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it is a very pointed bill trying to stop
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piracy that's it everybody can stop
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freaking out
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go ahead do your thing understand that
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yes
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the dmca system in a lot of instances is
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broken
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and it's being abused by some people but
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this
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bill is not going to put you
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in prison it's going to be the same
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situation
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status quo that it always was where a
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company can file the claim
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it can end up in court and worst case
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scenario
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if they could prove which they wouldn't
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be able to that you somehow harm them
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financially you could be on the hook
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for the financial harm that you did to
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this production company
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you're not going to jail
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talk to you guys later
