Will this (or how will it) effect illegal tubes? White House wants new copyright law crackdown

[Paper_Amar]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20043421-281.html

The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix "deficiencies that could hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws.
Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, with Vice President Joe Biden during an event last year

Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, with Vice President Joe Biden during an event last year.
(Credit: Whitehouse.gov)

The report was prepared by Victoria Espinel, the first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator who received Senate confirmation in December 2009, and represents a broad tightening of many forms of intellectual property law including ones that deal with counterfeit pharmaceuticals and overseas royalties for copyright holders. (See CNET's report last month previewing today's white paper.)

Some of the highlights:

? The White House is concerned that "illegal streaming of content" may not be covered by criminal law, saying "questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works." To resolve that ambiguity, it wants a new law to "clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances."

? Under federal law, wiretaps may only be conducted in investigations of serious crimes, a list that was expanded by the 2001 Patriot Act to include offenses such as material support of terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction. The administration is proposing to add copyright and trademark infringement, arguing that move "would assist U.S. law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate those offenses."

? Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it's generally illegal to distribute hardware or software--such as the DVD-decoding software Handbrake available from a server in France--that can "circumvent" copy protection technology. The administration is proposing that if Homeland Security seizes circumvention devices, it be permitted to "inform rightholders," "provide samples of such devices," and assist "them in bringing civil actions."

The term "fair use" does not appear anywhere in the report. But it does mention Web sites like The Pirate Bay, which is hosted in Sweden, when warning that "foreign-based and foreign-controlled Web sites and Web services raise particular concerns for U.S. enforcement efforts." (See previous coverage of a congressional hearing on overseas sites.)

The usual copyright hawks, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, applauded the paper, which grew out of a so-called joint strategic plan that Vice President Biden and Espinel announced in June 2010.

Rob Calia, a senior director at the Chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center, said we "strongly support the white paper's call for Congress to clarify that criminal copyright infringement through unauthorized streaming, is a felony. We know both the House and Senate are looking at this issue and encourage them to work closely with the administration and other stakeholders to combat this growing threat."

In October 2008, President Bush signed into law the so-called Pro IP ACT, which created Espinel's position and increased penalties for infringement, after expressing its opposition to an earlier version.

Unless legislative proposals--like one nearly a decade ago implanting strict copy controls in digital devices--go too far, digital copyright tends not to be a particularly partisan topic. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, near-universally disliked by programmers and engineers for its anti-circumvention section, was approved unanimously in the U.S. Senate.

At the same time, Democratic politicians tend to be a bit more enthusiastic about the topic. Biden was a close Senate ally of copyright holders, and President Obama picked top copyright industry lawyers for Justice Department posts. Last year, Biden warned that "piracy is theft."

No less than 78 percent of political contributions from Hollywood went to Democrats in 2008, which is broadly consistent with the trend for the last two decades, according to OpenSecrets.org.

[Paper_Amar]

The White House is concerned that "illegal streaming of content" may not be covered by criminal law, saying "questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works." To resolve that ambiguity, it wants a new law to "clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances.

[Robbie]

It sounds like the clock is ticking for assclowns like Fabian and other thieves.

[L-Pink]

Bump ..........

[Young]

I'm surprised that this is not bigger news here.

[Barry-xlovecam]

Well, I suppose it is directed toward the mainstream motion picture industry.

However, it may have unintended consequences for content thieves in porn.

Sounds like a winner to me ...

PDF

Give Wiretap Authority for Criminal Copyright and Trademark Offenses: The Joint Strategic Plan
committed Federal agencies to identify gaps in current intellectual property laws and ways that the
U.S. Government could enhance enforcement. One such gap involves wiretapping authority (that is,
authority to intercept wire, electronic, and/or oral communications). Title 18, United States Code, Section
2516 contains an extensive list of offenses for which the U.S. Government is authorized to seek wiretap
authority from a court to obtain evidence of those offenses, including for economic espionage (18 U.S.C.
§ 1831) and theft of trade secrets (18 U.S.C. § 1832). See 18 U.S.C. § 2516(1)(a) (listing offenses under
chapter 90). Omitted from this list are criminal copyright (17 U.S.C. § 506(a)(1), 18 U.S.C. § 2319) and
criminal trademark offenses (18 U.S.C. § 2320). Wiretap authority for these intellectual property crimes,
subject to the existing legal protections that apply to wiretaps for other types of crimes, would assist
U.S. law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate those offenses, including targeting organized
crime and the leaders and organizers of criminal enterprises.
Recommendation: The Administration recommends that Congress amend 18 U.S.C. § 2516 to give law
enforcement authority to seek a wiretap for criminal copyright and trademark offenses.

"leaders and organizers of criminal enterprises." interesting wording ...

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[BV]

too late

they already took most of the traffic

and now i see they are moving more and more to sponsor clips (from us sponsors adapting)

adapt or die. lol








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[BV]

but it is good news if they quit hosting member rips

might help conversion ratios with the (adapt or die) 5-6 min sponsor clips

conversions will never be as good as the 30 sec tgp/mgp clips though

so in the end they strategically won the traffic pool & sponsors ended up with shitty conversions from less affiliates

[V_RocKs]

While they have been "moving" to sponsor clips, they have TONS and TONS of illegal clips and without the illegal clips their traffic model would implode. No question about that and Fabian even expressed this when asked why he isn't strict about adding technology similar to Google that thwarts illegal uploads.

My dad uploaded a video slideshow for my mom for Valentine's Day. It had music by some singer that was popular in their time. Youtube stripped the audio from his video the second he uploaded it.

Don't tell me the technology to be legal isn't there. Fabian chooses not to use it, because if he did, the traffic would move to some other site(s).

Soon all tubes will be running on .ru domains like the streaming sports sites are now along with many torrent trackers.

[DeanCapture]

Originally Posted by Robbie

It sounds like the clock is ticking for assclowns like Fabian and other thieves.

Hell, they'll just find more unethical loopholes to exploit!

Once a low-life piece of shit.....always a low-life piece of shit.

[V_RocKs]

What will be interesting is this:

Silently the FBI is keeping tabs on illegal uploads on a tube site. They create a bot that finds illegal works and then keeps tabs on those "views" under each one.

The owners come to Las Vegas for Internext via a flight from Los Angeles or New York. Once landing on US soil the FBI arrests them.

Press statement goes out that illegal porn site operators caught trafficking in over 20,000 full length videos seen a total of over 4,000,000,000 times have been arrested. Minimum fines are $10,000,000 and 35 years in prison.

The FBI and the US District Attorney's Office will be handing over their evidence to anyone that wants to sue them in civil court along with the IPs of the viewers and the uploaders, many of which were traced back to Manwin (oops, this is supposed to be hypothetical) IP addresses and those of its employees.

With this one bust we were able to save your children. How? Because now they cannot just enter in a URL and watch porn. They have to prove their age by using a credit card making it harder for them to obtain access. Not to mention the monetary cost alone means the lucky kid that uses his Xmas prepaid Visa card can't have unlimited access like they could on these illegal tube sites.

[Robbie]

That is what could happen VRocks...except that the Manwin boys aren't allowed to fly. And I'm not even sure if they are allowed to drive into the U.S.

And if they did...yeah, it would be very risky for them and they would probably end up in custody.

That's why the few people you see from them at shows are all underlings working for the Brazzers brand. None of the real owners OR Fabian (the fake front guy) are currently going to be coming to any shows unless something changes for them legally.

And then they may find an ass whipping or two from some of the guys who don't fuck around. (yeah there are a few of them)

[V_RocKs]

Whom ever they send... they get detained...

Can't remember now but I think it was Neteller that got into this same jive when Internet gambling was outlawed.

[Seth Manson]

Originally Posted by Robbie

It sounds like the clock is ticking for assclowns like Fabian and other thieves.

[Robbie]

Originally Posted by V_RocKs

Whom ever they send... they get detained...

From everything I've been told the feds have no interest in underlings of Brazzers. They haven't done anything wrong.

They are after the real guys. And I was also told point blank that they have no interest in Fabian either...except maybe to turn. They know he isn't shit there already.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by BV

too late

they already took most of the traffic

and now i see they are moving more and more to sponsor clips (from us sponsors adapting)

adapt or die. lol



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But if the law passes then you can make those sites take your submitted videos
down.

Then you will get more traffic than before because smaller webmasters will show
your videos. The big tube has a ton of traffic but your video is not getting more
views than if it were on 1000 small tubes that got their fair share of traffic because
the small tube has less videos to surf.