Stream a YouTube video, go directly to jail
Welcome to the United States of the RIAA: A new bill that just flew through a U.S. Senate committee could make embedding copyrighted videos a crime, punishable by five years in the pokey.
In effect, the bill is pretty simple. Senate Bill 978 takes existing copyright laws that make the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works a felony and adds the pungent phrase “public performances by electronic means” (that is, video streaming) to the list of things that can land you in the slammer.
