UK woman responds to Obama on son’s ‘web piracy’
US President Barack Obama has faced questions over attempts to extradite a British student accused of breaking American copyright laws. Richard O’Dwyer, 23, set up the TVShack website which US authorities say hosted links to pirated copyrighted material. Richard’s mother Julia told Newsbeat that he had not broken any UK laws and President Obama had given a typical politician’s answer in response to questions about his case. President Obama was taking part in an online Q and A session organised by Google.
Uploaded by YouTuber ‘gramrastag’ on Jan 22, 2012 Stop Online piracy Act (SOPA) or HR 3261, is a bill introduced by the US House of Representatives on Oct 26, 2011. This would allow the US Dept of Justice and Copyright holders to shut-down any Website accused of facilitating copyrighted material The following actions could also take place banning Advertisers from doing business with these sites banning search engines from linking to them even requiring Internet Service Providers to block access But thats not all… This bill would also make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material a crime with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison for 10 pieces of music/movies within 6 months This bill provides immunity to Internet Services that voluntarily take action against websites accused and gives authority to the US department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside US jurisdiction accused of this infringment This Infringes on First Amendment rights, it’s nothing more than crippling Internet censorship, and threatens whistle-blowing and other free speech The US Congressional Budget Office estimates that this bill would cost the federal government 47 million dollars through 2016. Translated into plain english, It will cost tax payers 47 million dollars over the next 4 years. The SOPA act essentually means, that even if you make a video of your child playing or singing and you have music playing in the background, or video on TV, you are breaking the law, and …
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December 27, 2012@ 8:06 am
If it wasn’t illegal in his country then he didn’t commit a crime. Hopefully, the jury will see it this way, but regardless as an American I’m growing more and more disenfranchised with our government, and I believe I’m in the majority.
If you’re reading this from another country please know that most Americans don’t want to go around enforcing the US’s will. Our government certainly does give us a tough name to deal with overseas.
December 27, 2012@ 8:22 am
The US should not extradite this person, surely the hosting of the illegal content is MUCH more sensible to pursue, i really hope the government back this view
December 27, 2012@ 8:35 am
this is fucked up!!!
December 27, 2012@ 9:07 am
If it ever does pass, the government better be ready for years of cyber attacks.
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