Thank you for this. Your work has been a true inspiration to me over the past year and I am beyond thrilled that you are putting your talents behind such an important and often overlooked issue.

This must be shared. Posted it at icecreamhater.tumblr.com/

I'd love to vote on that site, but I'm not in the USA... :P

control = never progress

thanks for doing this - very important message you are providing here !

These content corporations are so close to obsolete. Their business model is based on analog media adding noise every time you make a copy, and most people's lack of expensive recording equipment.

Digital, in contrast, means perfect reproduction and distribution for all! That's just how computers work. They are copying machines. It's all they do. Perfectly. Copy and paste. Saving is really copying. Sharing is copying. Distributing is copying.

And that's why selling content makes for a difficult business case. Better to make money around content. That's what any of us would do today. Hollywood, though, buys governments everywhere instead. What else can they do? And maybe it will work.

once again u never seem to stop amazing me with your content and ur style
thanks!

Please, translate this video or put some subs in spanish!

thanks for sharing this!

my i mirror this on my YT channel? I'll link it back to this video!

The moment I heard the narrator, I was like 'Hey, that's Kirby!" :3

Great video!

when i heard this i seriously got full of rage!
its wrong!
F*CK EM'!

I just saw the video. Did this bulllshit's law passed??

love your videos !

This is great Kirby! Thank you so much for putting it together.

Just posted it on showusyourclips.com

Brace yourself Kirby! You're about to get an ambush of views, brotha! :)

ah, the u.s. congress; a fine gathering of tools.

Man Kirby, your video made it big. I am sure you have a deep seated contentment with your contribution. You have certainly played an influential part in the largest network in the history of this world. And I take satisfaction observing it. :) Thank you.

Even of you trust US government? I don't trust mine, but i trust US government even less!

"It could send ordinary YouTube and FB users to jail!"

That won't stop infringement?

Here's an idea: How about a law that injects mandatory anti-piracy education into the public school curricula?

Please go on making stuff like this. You are important!

kirby, anarchy isn't freedom. the wonderful analysis you've done in your remix package would not exist if profit making industries did not provide the raw materials. laws against stealing aren't wrong, stealing is wrong. will laws prevent all internet theft? no. would real gun control laws prevent access to all guns? no. could laws against internet theft be abused? perhaps and that is where your vigilance is required, but such laws are at least part of a social compact which attempts to define our common values. hysteria over a pitifully small attempt to control access to private property by thieves and profiteers is dishonest and shortsighted.

btw, I remember a psychology experiment in which infant rhesus monkeys were deprived of any contact with others to determine if affection and socialization were necessary for a healthy life. turns out they were! For this obvious insight sentient beings were tortured. I do like what you've done but your conclusion should surprise no one. Yes, every idea has a papa and each insight grows from the one before. but when an idea is realized or refined, often at great expense, it has value to its author and just because it exits in digital space as 0's and 1's does not mean it is not concrete and proprietary. of course, you can, and we all do make things which refer to or grow from the work of others. And I agree that fair use issues need review, but you can't steal the bricks from my home to build your own. that is stealing not inspiration.

so right!