Youtube has ability to find which track is playing in videos and then adds link to the description to buy the song on iTunes, either that or the uploader does this. If a song is found in violation of an agreement with youtube, the audio is replaced.

The thing about internet piracy is that there are three types of pirate. 1. Those who download because they can’t afford something but would pay if they could. A lot do when they can. 2. People who want to demo a product, determine if they like it to make informed decisions. They tend to delete whatever they downloaded once they obtain a legitimate copy or find themselves dissatisfied. 3. Those who never planned on buying the product and won’t, regardless.

Nothing can be done about group 3, this bill may make some think twice, but won’t stop a thing. It’s stupid to target them anyways, don’t represent significant loss of revenue. This just makes the taxpayers have to pay for the legal process and added incarceration instead of companies.

okay, sorry, hate to be spamming here, but another thing is, YouTube is WHY I buy the music! I find the artist on YouTube, listen to their songs, and then, once I have the money, I buy the song so I can listen to it anywhere, with no need of internet.

Oh!! I almost forgot. We have enough people in prison! It costs more to put people in prison and feed them than it does to let them upload freaking videos! Ugh. I am irritated.

this entire bill is invalid.
music is a freedom of speech to artists and emotions of others.
for someone to seek relevance in a song, giving and acknowledging complete credit to the artist/composer, also the stating of “no intent of copyright infringement” being added, what is the controversial issue here?
it’s like music is a crime now.
shouldn’t our country be worried about bigger things like the legalization of marijuana (which should be legalized)?
all natural things in this country are wrong.
this is just ridiculous.

This is BULL. CRAP. Not everyone can buy music— a lot of us don’t have the money. (Yes, actually, not everyone has a dollar to spare on music.) In fact, YouTube is a way of FINDING MUSIC! Now it’s not just the fake musicians and all of those people ruining music— It’s the government! You CAN NOT do this! In the words of Christofer Drew Ingle “set the music free”! I mean, REALLY!? Another issue is the games! So what? Now cr1tiKaL is going to get arrested!? NO! You need to leave these people alone. If you aren’t making money off of someone else’s work, then it should be fine! Now, I am boycotting YouTube. I hope others will join me until this is gone for good. This is just another way the US government is taking away OUR RIGHTS and we are gladly GIVING THEM AWAY for the ILLUSION of safety. I am officially ticked off. Thank you, stupid freaking people. This is why I would rather be in Mexico than in America— at least they are somewhat honest about what’s going on down there.

First, it is unreasonable to expect that any video or musical track that is played over open airwaves and freely viewed or listened to via the radio or television should not be freely viewed or listened to via the internet.

Secondly, as long as the person is not making money off of a reproduction, to taking credit for the intellectual property of the artist, then the complaint is unwarranted. By this claim, you should be charged a felony for playing your favorite CD in your vehicle when four of your friends are in the car with you. You may have bought the CD, but they didn’t and so all five of you should be charged with felony crimes. You for disseminating copyrighted music in public(yes, your friends are public) and without the consent or royalties paid to the artist. Your friends should be charged for listening to the track without paying for it. There is no matter of degree here.

If you steal a CD from a store, and get caught you’ll likely get a small fine and a misdomeanor something, not $2,500 or a felony… Bad government is bad.

Teen:I understand media such as movies and TV, but video games and even music require a much more in depth analysis: far more money would be lost preventing these forms of media from appearing on internet streams. If I’m not mistaken, far, far more adults and even children would end up in prison for innocently infringing on a stupid copyright. This would mean immediate prison overcrowding and taxpayer money down the drain, industries would shut down, the entrepreneurial music and video game sector would by crippled, people would be left without their jobs (professional streamers), whole school/businesses administrations would go to jail for spicing up the day… but why are we complaining about this when the whole country is piling up the biggest debt in recorded history, Greece is sinking into the sea, unstable countries have massive nuclear stockpiles and poverty/unemployment run far more rampant than previous years. If the US defaults, it will send the whole world into chaos.

AMERICA FUCK YOU!

OK to the 10 people that support this What a shame that you support this. this law needs to be rewritten to say " for profit" why do you think youtube has become popular. this is just a way for the use government to violate our privacy. whay to turn communist. and what if the video is uploaded in another country does it make it illegal too. too brod of a bill to be passed. this is corupt politics. if this is signed, it means removing my covers that have gotton me half of my subscribers on youtube

Does this mean that artists on youtube won’t be able to make covers of copyrighted songs?

This bill should not be past. I don’t think you guys are educated enough to know that most of this is good advertisement for these companies. If i want to buy a game i go to the internet and look at a review of it if they give good reviews i go and buy it. This will also waste more tax dollars trying to prosecute these people for streaming videos games. Please review this bill. I dont condone people actually pirating, but if the person actually bought the game to stream it on the internet, its good for that company. Lets not waste more money that we don’t have. DON’T PASS THIS BILL

What about people who are doing reviews? Satire? Writing walkthroughs and other things that are covered under fair use, This bill turns those people into felons as well, What about people merely jerking around singing karaoke and then uploading a video of it on youtube? Those people are now felons as well

Also you’re ignoring something, How many of those people listening to Halo on Youtube already purchased the song legally? How many are Beyonce fans who bought her merchandise, went to her concerts and etc? How many people went out and bought her album after listening to it on youtube? I dont know about you but Youtube has been a great aid to me in finding new bands for later purchase…Purchases those bands would NOT have gotten otherwise! And I’ve introduced bands to friends this way as well! Thats a marketing oppertunity, Artists should change and adapt to the technology, Not support legislation that stifles it…

This bill in other words is ‘stupid’. This goverment should redo the bill. I mean it was a good idea that got out of hand. I can understand cracked games (Illegal games) and illegal download of songs and movies. But something like a video from youtube that is someone playing a game that they bought legally and what not is really stupid. I don’t think the goverment should control this. I think if the music company or the video game company should have a say. If they don’t want videos of there stuff on what ever website then fine. But the goverment shouldn’t really do anything about this. It’s the companies deal if they don’t want videos of whatever on the internet.

i’m sorry is the government trying to piss gamers off? i mean there’s what about 1million gamers out there and out of all of the gamers i know majority of them eather stream or watch streams of games. if this law was to even pass they’d piss of a majority of the US population. kind of like how they’re trying to pass a new rating system in California

I may also state that I have seen people say sites will crash. Such as: IGN, YouTube, Machinima, and this bill will be posted everywhere, trust me. If these sites crash, half of the world or even more (about 50-75%) will be very angry at the people who have brought this bill up. I am angry also. I have signed up just for this. I have definitely opposed this bill.

I made a mistake in a comment.

I have seen people say this in different words: "I support the bill, except for the gaming part. I agree. Vevo may suffer though. No one should be putting up videos of movies or TV unless they are allowed to. Machinima may not be affected depending on allowance and copyright laws. Overall I agree with all except the gaming part.

I don’t support this bill, because it makes no sense to me. Why should it be illegal? It should either be:

A: Companies and directors decide what they want and besides the game companies and music videos get more views and more publicity.

Or B: We tally it up and personally I think this bill will not succeed, because of gamers and people who support gaming. Maybe even Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo. Gaming companies can take a big part in this bill. I also think there are many people who don’t want to see on YouTube: no content has been found for your results or something to that effect. Please reply if you agree to my suggestions, and theories. Thanks.

Will not" srry for grammar

Ok gamers plz com down and watch and tell others about this video it tells how this bill will nit hurt gaming!!! http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=x11s8trkFzM

And what about Riffs and Let’s Plays? Wouldn’t that make the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000 the biggest criminals in America? Rifftrax is certainly going to go under if this get’s passed. As for Let’s Players, they’re just guys who want to play a game and record them playing a game. What’s wrong with them putting on the internet for their friends to see? Even if they somehow amass a fan base of unknowns what would banning Let’s Plays or the use of video game footage really accomplish? So you’re showing them footage of a video game they can’t play unless they purchase it? Oh no, scary, how dare someone be enticed by watching someone else have fun with a video game and wanting to purchase it themselves. This bill would cripple the industry by not allowing people to post footage of video games or movies. Especially the more obscure titles in both industries, musicians would also be crippled, less free advertisement, less fans, less ticket sales, less money.

I understand the movie, tv and music part of this bill. However, the video game part is absurd. To begin it isnt actually copyright to post a video of video game. with a movie, u watch it on the internet instead of paying for it. For a video game, u bought that game, posted a video of it and the people who watch the video cant just play the game for free. You are actually supporting that game by showing to others, than other people buy the game so game companies make more money. companies like machinima have deals with major game companies to post video of their game, so they will be fine, but the small independent channels on youtube wont survive. I honestly dont think anyone from congress will read this, so they will never understand that the bill is incorrect

This Bill is not only ludicrous but at the same time Conflicts with Title 17, Chapter 1, section 107 of the United States code. Fair Use is there to protect individuals who utilize copyrighted footage for Criticism, Comment, News Reporting, Teaching, Scholarship, and Research. Anyone who wants to use clips from movies, video games, television shows etc. would be arrested for properly using copyrighted material. Not to mention those who utilize footage for satirical reasons, or comedic reasons, would also be facing time, for what? Making a joke? Oh yeah I’m certain someone who utilizes referential humor in their own content is worthy of being called a felon. This would make internet critics by law the equivalent to someone who’s profession is in human trafficking. This is disgusting, I’m certain guys like Doug Walker cause so much harm by making jokes about old movies you may or may not remember from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Seriously congress, why?

I will be writing to my State Senators about this with in the next few days or so. There is going to be websites that use Videos to make reviews, cheats, and anything else to help out the people for lets say video games. I strongly believe that Youtube.com, Ign, Machinma, and any other company that uses these features will crash and burn if this bill is passed. I help out with a site that needs some of these Videos to help the site run. I for one will oppose to this and will try to reach out to anyone about this and get them to do the same. Congress, expect ALOT of people going against this.