My Daily Domestic Clips 06/04/2011 (a.m.)

• | Modest Wedding Gowns Because we don’t want to see “all that” going on from your strapless wedding gown! tags: wedding
• » Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind! The man behind the curtain – trying to take more control. tags: areyousorryyet? currentevents Obama
  • According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison. Read Masnick’s article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet. As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons. If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media. It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material. It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation. Here is the full text of the bill. Addendum It should be noted that outlawing certain activities on the internet is instrumental to the Obama administration’s copyright policy
  • In March, the White House’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, provided Congress with a White Paper (available for download here), outlining a series of the Obama Administration’s recommended legislative changes to combat online piracy and counterfeiting. “Significantly, the recommendations include making it a felony offense to stream infringing content and giving Federal agencies wiretapping authority to obtain evidence of criminal copyright and trademark offenses,” David Makarewicz wrote for Infowars.com on March 17.
  • Obama’s emerging policy on streaming media dovetails with his administration’s effort to seize web domains. The Department of Homeland Security now arrests web site operators under its “In Our Sites” program.

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