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The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony

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"for commercial profit" (quote from the article) should be added to the title, as it completely changes the meaning. (actual bill text is "for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain")

Technically, not having to pay a $2.99 rental fee is private financial gain.

However there are a few other requirements including;

> is primarily designed or provided for the purpose of publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law

> has no commercially significant purpose or use other than to publicly perform works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or

> is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law

How does that impact Let's Players or movie reviewers?

Yet another reason why the line-item veto should be allowed at the Federal level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_S...

The last thing we need is the Executive rewriting legislation that has passed through Congress, broken as that Congress may be. Fix the legislature if you think the legislature is broken. You don't further skew what little remains of the separation of powers.

Hmm, What if it was made such where the president 'line-items' it, but the vetoed version still has to go back to the House and Senate to Re-Approve?

This has advantages over the current practice, where if a president wants a line-item struck they more or less have to veto the whole thing, and that is how the news can/would report it.

Contrast to the optics of an 'item-strike', where it is more natural to report that the Executive branch 'almost' supports it, but it's up to the House and Senate to decide whether %STIMULUS_PACKAGE% really needs a 20 year copyright extension rider.

i think bill stuffing like we are seeing should be the target to eliminate

1000% this. Bill stuffing is a gross abuse of power and one of the worst forms of cronyism and manipulation.

It makes me want to run for president with the promise that I'd veto any bill that touches more than one topic to force Congress to either solve specific needs or to force them to come together to obtain a veto-proof majority.

How?

grass roots public awareness campaign is a start.

prohibit linking non budgetary matters to budget bills [among others] that are required to pass for the government to continue functioning.

prohibit lobbied bills from being packed into operational bills or other constituitives.

eventually, one bill one topic period.

Topic as in U.S.C. title?

this needs work as well , those titles are very often misleading, and dont reflect content or purpose.

I'm referring to the titles of U.S.C. sections, not of bills, in case that wasn't clear.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text

It really shouldn't. Read the Wisconsin section of that article to see why.

As a Laboratory of Democracy, Wisconsin shows why the line item veto should be "strike the whole item or leave it as is" and nothing in between, otherwise you're empowering The Executive to effectively write legislation.

Then then legislature needs to be really careful over what is and isn't a full line, otherwise they could end up giving the executive arbitrary powers.

If the legislature wants to give the executive the option of passing a law in multiple ways, they can do that explicitly.

Great how these crooks waste no opportunity to add their pork to a bill that should have been passed months ago. /s

This is a disgusting abuse of law (as usual it feels like these days). Streaming is essential to some people during these times as an outlet for relief to the stress.

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