| Slimebeast said: YouTube will become less relaxed as they start blocking videos and music from big companies, but apart from that what is the big deal? |
My fear is how this law would be abused ...
There is already a problem on Youtube where people are being censored by individuals/organizations who file a copyright complaint against them. Often there is not material with copyrights in these videos, and/or it clearly falls under fair use, but it still goes through and enables those people with some power to effectively censor something they don't like.
To bring it back to this site, suppose this law goes through and EA decides that they want to silence negative reviews for their game being published prior to the game being released and they start claiming that the videos/images of their game on sites with negative reviews violates their copyright. Suddenly these sites are shut down and it takes thousands of dollars of legal fees and weeks to clear up the mess; both of which could kill many small sites.
Hell, I would expect vgchartz to be shut down almost immediately by a copyright complaint from NPD ...
