Make streaming a felony: Obama + TSA 4th Amendment Protest

Make streaming a felony one more excuse to tap your phone.

Make streaming a felony: Obama

Freetards? Throw away the key!

The US government is proposing that "infringement by streaming" be made into a felony.

That is one of a number of proposals contained in a white paper published (PDF/917KB) by the White House.

The proposals also include allowing the Department of Homeland Security (that's right, intellectual property offences are now, apparently, terrorist offences) to share information with customs to help determine whether a product is an infringing product, or a device is an infringing device; and permitting wiretaps for investigating "criminal copyright and trademark offenses".

The streaming-as-a-felony proposal is based on questions as to "whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works (and thereby is a felony) and/or performance of those works (and thereby is not a felony)".

The wiretap provisions are justified by the large number of offences for which law enforcement is already able to seek wiretaps.

The Obama administration's white paper seems, however, to be in line with the stringent enforcement regimes it wants other countries to adopt under the so-far-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement process. The Register

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Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

I like your style young man, the same couldn't be said for the TSA though, I don't think they were too impressed.

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

A 21-year-old Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) that in December he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures.

“Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and gut read.

The University of Cincinnati student didn’t want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines that are cropping up at airports nationwide. Instead, when it was his turn to be screened, he was going to opt for an intrusive pat-down — and remove most of his clothing in the process.

“He went there knowing he would not do the advanced imaging and do the pat-down instead,” his attorney, James Knicely, said in a telephone interview. “He was making it easy for them and in the process he wanted to communicate his objection for doing so.”

Among other things, the federal lawsuit claims wrongful detention and a breach of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment. “He was held there for 90 minutes, and handcuffed behind his back,” Knicely said.

Tobey was on his way to Wisconsin for his grandmother’s funeral. Despite his detainment, he made his flight.

According to the suit, while under interrogation on December 30, the authorities wanted to know “about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were.”

Two weeks later, Henrico County prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor charge. Wired

Snippet. Hillary Rodham Clinton, nuff said.

Among all the rest, the bit at the 50sec mark.