Congress Planning to Make Unauthorized Streaming a Felony

[Donovan Roudabush]

Today the following below headlines slashdot, perhaps it's time to rise for freedom of streaming? Because after streaming is regulated, more information will be regulated/censored.

"From the Washington Post: 'You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy that endorsed one piece of the controversial proposal: making the streaming of copyrighted works a felony. As it stands now, streaming a copyrighted work over the Internet is considered a violation of the public performance right. The violation is only punishable as a misdemeanor, rather than the felony charges that accompany the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material.'"