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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.

I'm pretty sure that holds more relevance.

I don't understand how the streaming of video games can be considered a crime.

I don't know about you, but most of the games I buy and play I first saw through videos on Youtube and other video streaming sites.

the biggest concern is how will this effect studios advertising there games now?


nowadays studios like nrs and bioware have youtube pages of there own so theres more questions instead of answers.


you look at events like e3 or comic con and there streamed live so this is gona hurt alot of that come to think of it

The article specifically says you can get jailed for copyright if you make any sort of profit from the video in question

Considering Youtube is non-profit, I consider the thread title to be misleading

Yea, this is why so many Let's Play videos are allowed.

Considering the guy who wrote the article is an attorney who specializes in intellectual property law, I'd say he probably knows more about it than any of you internet dweebs (or even this internet dweeb).

That said, media companies still need to learn what software companies learned a long, long time ago: if you want to build a loyal user/consumer base, you've got to either a) give away free stuff (the Microsoft approach), or b) look the other way and let people steal your stuff (the Adobe approach). It's really that simple. With the advent of the internet (and especially high speed internet access) the age of artificial scarcity is over. Anything that can be replicated digitally can be done so ad infinitum, and with minimal time & effort. Turning the screws on your own customers like this is only going to make you look like an asshole (which is an image problem the industry already has).

What brings this to a danger here is that youtube sponsers bring in money for ads and views on their channels. So if this new law is passed it could turn those particular people into criminals as fas as the law is concerned.