2:58 pm - 10/28/2011
this fool
Justin Bieber: Minnesota Senator Needs To Be "Locked Up!"
Justin Bieber on Thursday was like, “baby, baby, baby, no.” oy
On a radio show, the tween pop sensation called out Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who’s sponsoring legislation to make it a felony to profit from streaming unlicensed content online, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
“That guy needs to be locked up,” Bieber said after hearing about the bill, apparently not immediately remembering Amy is generally a woman’s name. “Whoever she is, she needs to know that I’m saying she needs to be locked up, put away in cuffs.”
But no bother, Bieber fans are rallying. As the Washington Post reports, Fight for the Future, a technology advocacy group, has launched a website called FreeBieber.Org, with a whole bunch of cutesy photos of Bieber behind bars. “Justin faces 5 brutal years in prison,” the website reads. Ironically, Bieber’s lawyers sent the group a cease and desist order over the site.
The bill, though, doesn’t threaten artists like Bieber. It only goes after those who illegally stream unlicensed content, those who are trying to make a profit on web streaming. The Washington Post reports:
At Copyhype, a blog devoted to copyright issues, IP attorney Terry Hart argues that “someone who uploads a video to YouTube is not performing the video — YouTube is,” meaning a person cannot be prosecuted under S.978 any more than they could have been in the past.“In short,” Hart said, “Justin Bieber is not going to jail.”
Klobuchar spokesperson Brigit Helgen put the bill in perspective:
“Justin Bieber must have been misled about the content of this bill,” she said in a statement, according to the Star Tribune. "It’s not about people posting their personal work on the web… The bill only covers the intentional commercial theft of things like books, commercial music, and movies, including foreign piracy.”
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Justin Bieber on Thursday was like, “baby, baby, baby, no.” oy
On a radio show, the tween pop sensation called out Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who’s sponsoring legislation to make it a felony to profit from streaming unlicensed content online, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
“That guy needs to be locked up,” Bieber said after hearing about the bill, apparently not immediately remembering Amy is generally a woman’s name. “Whoever she is, she needs to know that I’m saying she needs to be locked up, put away in cuffs.”
But no bother, Bieber fans are rallying. As the Washington Post reports, Fight for the Future, a technology advocacy group, has launched a website called FreeBieber.Org, with a whole bunch of cutesy photos of Bieber behind bars. “Justin faces 5 brutal years in prison,” the website reads. Ironically, Bieber’s lawyers sent the group a cease and desist order over the site.
The bill, though, doesn’t threaten artists like Bieber. It only goes after those who illegally stream unlicensed content, those who are trying to make a profit on web streaming. The Washington Post reports:
At Copyhype, a blog devoted to copyright issues, IP attorney Terry Hart argues that “someone who uploads a video to YouTube is not performing the video — YouTube is,” meaning a person cannot be prosecuted under S.978 any more than they could have been in the past.“In short,” Hart said, “Justin Bieber is not going to jail.”
Klobuchar spokesperson Brigit Helgen put the bill in perspective:
“Justin Bieber must have been misled about the content of this bill,” she said in a statement, according to the Star Tribune. "It’s not about people posting their personal work on the web… The bill only covers the intentional commercial theft of things like books, commercial music, and movies, including foreign piracy.”
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Justin Bieber on Thursday was like, “baby, baby, baby, no.” oy
i'm lol-ing so much at this idkw
That is all.
lolol
Flawless icon btw
The bill would make it illegal for performers to post Cover songs of other artists on YouTube and sell their versions on iTunes, think like Alex Goot or Boyce Avenue so it makes since that Bieber wouldn't like it because he got his rise to fame by posting cover songs on YouTube.
What he said was kinda stupid though lol.
"I don't know much about the [different political] parties, but whatever they have in Korea, that's bad."
(Yes, I know: Bachmann is a Congresswoman, not a Senator.)