HappySqurriel said:
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 ... |
That would suck big time, VGC getting shut down by NPD.
Also, using copyright infringement as an immoral tool to block critical people would be much more common yes, I have understood that it's a significant problem already today on YouTube.
Squirrel, you have the best arguments as always. I love your posts.
