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The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020 is a United States law that makes it a felony to engage in large-scale streaming of copyright material. The bill was introduced by Senator Thom Tillis on December 10, 2020.
The legislation has broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Entertainment Software Association, Macmillan US, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries.
The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020, penned by Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, instead sets its sights on “commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services.” “The ...
Online piracy has led to improvements into file sharing technology that has bettered information distribution as a whole. Additionally, pirating communities tend to model market trends well, as members of those communities tend to be early adopters.
Websites hosting streams of movies, TV shows and live sporting events knocked offline as part of Operation Takendown World’s largest piracy network taken down after 100 homes raided across 10 ...
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The penalty could include up to five years of prison-time. The bill defined illegal streaming as streaming ten or more times in a 180-day period. Furthermore, the value of the illegally streamed material would have to be greater than $2,500, or the licensing fees would have to be over $5,000.
The illegal streaming site used software to scrape piracy websites for TV shows and then uploaded them to its own servers, charging users $9.99 a month for access