MrSmartGuy posted...
Yeah, UltraDavid appears to have the most thorough understanding of this bill out of anyone I know. From what I've read, it simply seems like the bill is terribly worded. For instance, a person who films their child singing a karaoke version of a pop song and uploads it to Youtube would be in violation of this bill, as is. It just has a huge need to be totally revised.
That's pretty much the size of it. The bill is meant to stop the live streaming of television and movies, which is silly enough on its own, since TV companies could easily hop on the money train if they weren't stuck in the past, but it's worded so poorly that if affects pretty much everything, from music to video games streams. It's an incredibly dangerous bill when it comes to internet freedoms.
Oh, and of course another gigantic problem is handing control over handling cases of such copyright infringement to the government. So even if Capcom was completely fine with WNF streams, and they are, it wouldn't matter. The government is allowed to swoop in at any time and take the streamers to jail.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqk_q4NLLI
Not taking it.