There’s a new bill that harmonizes penalties for illegal streaming services with penalties for illegal download services. FMC has long supported harmonization while wanting to make sure policies don’t have unintended consequences. So how is this bill?
Turns out, it’s pretty narrowly tailored to deal with truly bad actors! Even more narrow than previous attempts to deal with the problem. Unfortunately one of the problems with internet policy is that rhetoric gets heated.
The last couple times bills dealing with these issues were floated, some people made outlandish and frankly dishonest claims, like that it would have sent Justin Bieber to prison.
There was a time when some recording industry groups pursued infringement claims against individual users. We don’t want a return to that. But going after companies that profit from running illegal streaming services? That’s reasonable.
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