You beat me to this by like 5 fucking minutes. Very relevant and important post for the sift. Here's the *quality mark I wanted.

The part that is really disconcerting is "Those contexts now include a YouTube video embedded on your blog or website, assuming your site is not "purely" non-commercial and is deemed large enough by ASCAP."

We are in serious fucking trouble if ASCAP puts the sift in the crosshairs.

JiggaJonson cannot award a quality point for this post because JiggaJonson does not have enough Power Points - ignoring quality request by JiggaJonson. (You can always purchase more Power Points.)

whoops! bought some a la carte points just for this *quality

Awarding Payback with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by JiggaJonson.

RIAA all over again.

Refer to source provider, ignore afterwards.

*doublepromote

Double-Promoting this Sift Talk post - doublepromote requested by JiggaJonson.

wow...there's this douche there called "Ricky-Oh" on this site.

Here's some of his comments:
And so it begins. This time it's not the evil old RIAA or MPAA, it's an organization that actually makes sure content creators get paid. I love this. Soon, everyone will have to pay for every bit of content they consume. Finally.
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Yes, more money does need to leave people's pockets. Your Internet and Cable providers are that and only that. Providers of bandwidth, not content. You don't HAVE to pay for those things, you could camp out in Starbuck's and steal the WiFi, or watch only broadcast TV. But you don't, you consume content that comes down a pipeline you also pay for. The content itself is a separate matter, and yes, you should pay for every last iota of it you consume. All of it. Every bit. Separate from the pipeline it's delivered in, it's commercial content and you need to pay for it. If you don't want to pay for it or can't afford to pay for it, then don't consume it. Where people got the idea this stuff should be free is completely beyond me.

Ignore them. They will go away.

wow. This is crazy.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

So lame. No we haven't gotten anything like this yet.

What could possibly go wrong in a democratically elected representative government?

If you are a statist you really have no room to complain here.

>> ^rottenseed:
wow...there's this douche there called "Ricky-Oh" on this site.



Is that Ricky-Oh as in that shitty Japanese movie? Either way...the guy sounds like a douche.

>> ^imstellar28:
What could possibly go wrong in a democratically elected representative government an intellectual property system?
If you are a statist Libertarian you really have no room to complain here.

Fixed.

^The intellectual property system is a statist program. Most libertarians don't believe in IP.

^All property systems are statist programs, but that does not seem to stop libertarians from believing in them.