2011-04-25, 07:11 PM
Heidi Wrote:Time for huge amounts of encryption and routing packets all over the place before routing them to my computer in order to protect my privacy should I get falsely accused under this law (Routing packets everywhere won't work with youtube due to speed issues)
As Grag (Spaz/ LHCGreg/ whatever) said in a private IRC conversation to me the other day...
[13:29:13] <LHCGreg> Well, they do have the right to enforce copyright
[13:29:34] <LHCGreg> But accidentally viewing a copyrighted video (or not knowing it's copyrighted and not used with permission)...
[13:29:45] <LHCGreg> That shouldn't be punishable
[13:30:10] <LHCGreg> And it's very easy for, as an example, someone to post a youtube link on a forum or IRC channel, and someone else to click it without even knowing what it is
Yeah, really. They should be going against the people that host copyrighted material on YouTube, not the ones viewing it.
Though if you download copyrighted material it's another thing entirely.