New Law Will Shut Down TorrentFreak, Music Industry Expert Says

There is no "new law" nor even a proposed bill. There's a suggestion in a whitepaper from law enforcement that they would benefit from expanded powers and new laws. This should not be too surprising. Specifically they request "Congress clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances." The issue is that currently not everyone agrees whether streaming content you don't own counts as unauthorized distribution or an unauthorized performance or something else.

And, uh, they kinda buried the lede on this one:

"As for his writings with regard to TorrentFreak, the recommendations put forward by the White House do of course have no impact on sites that discuss P2P technology. And no, streaming and P2P services that distribute licensed content will not disappear either. It’s just the rambling of a pitiful person who just hit the narcissist jackpot with this article. Congrats!"

Guess that's one way to write a sensationalistic headline and then escape blame for being totally bogus.

They should pass one of these new laws banning drugs as well that will stop drugs.

A law against murder might also be a good idea

"unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material become a felony". How is it possible to implement such a law and not make YouTube a felon? The decision in the Viacom vs. Youtube said that YouTube was not guilty of copyright violations because YouTube removes content once asked to do so and makes some minimal preemptive efforts to filter copyrighted content. We need to assume that Google will prevent any changes to the law that move the fine line on which YouTube operates.

Source document: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ip_white_paper...

Sensationalist title, but I guess it might have been used to prove a point???

I agree with TorrentFreak and say that Moses Avalon went a bit too far. I kinda see where Avalon is coming from, meaning things are going to shits, but the entire diatribe is such a rambling of non sense it's hard to take Avalon seriously.

I highly doubt there would be an attack on the media at such a level because then you're blatantly stepping on freedom of speech, which I am sure media sites would not be happy about, and would love to write up a storm.