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2011-11-18 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · advocacy activism

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Hank argues that Congress should not regulate the internet through anti-piracy bills such as the PROTECT IP Act: copyright law matters and fair use needs protecting, but these bills would stifle creativity, punish sites for users' uploads and hand takedown power to corporations.

What is said

00:00:00 — Reply to John's zombie list: World War Z missing; Dad took 10-year-old Hank to see Akira; a creepy song from the film

  • ★★ Hank enjoyed John's zombie list but says it lacked World War Z, the only media to give him nightmares since Akira. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ The description warns that Congress's plan would let any US website be turned off at a moment's notice and push sites to censor themselves. — 00:00:00 · United States Congress
  • ★★ Hank recalls that their dad took him to see Akira in a dinner theater when he was 10, which he says he will never forgive. (playful) — 00:00:08
  • ★ Hank plays a song from a creepy part of Akira and calls it the creepiest piece of media ever created. (playful) — 00:00:15

00:00:24 — Playing the Akira clip was fair use; copyright law is needed but should be better; Congress should keep out of the internet

  • ★★★ Hank says playing and commenting on the Akira clip is fair use: you can't steal and monetize copyrighted work, but commentary may include pieces of it, and banning that would violate free speech. — 00:00:28
  • ★★ Hank says fair use is still fuzzy in law, so Akira's creators could challenge him, and American copyright law needs to be better. (hedged) — 00:00:48 · copyright
  • ★★★ Hank says he loves and needs copyright law and doesn't want John's books stolen, but doesn't want Congress meddling with the internet. — 00:00:55 · copyright, United States Congress

00:01:11 — Top five reasons not to let Congress regulate the internet (jail, the PROTECT IP name, creativity, platform liability, corporate takedowns); the internet as economic engine

  • ★★★ Hank presents his top five reasons why Congress should not be allowed to regulate the internet. — 00:01:11 · United States Congress
  • ★ Hank's first reason, played for laughs: he doesn't want himself or most people under 30 to go to jail, which would be bad for the economy. (joke) — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Hank's second reason mocks the contrived acronym name of the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act). (playful) — 00:01:26
  • ★★★ Hank argues anti-piracy legislation stifles creativity and economic growth; Machinima thrives on technically illegal content that copyright holders welcome, so copyright law is not too lax. — 00:01:52 · copyright
  • ★★★ Hank argues sites shouldn't be blamed for users' uploads: the PROTECT IP Act would make Tumblr responsible for GIFs of Abed from Community and could get it switched off. — 00:02:13 · Tumblr
  • ★★★ Hank argues the PROTECT IP Act would let a corporation have a vlogbrothers video taken down without human review, leaving creators powerless, as if the MPAA were a law enforcement body. — 00:02:35 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ Hank says the internet's explosion of creative content is good; technology forces change, but locking it down would wreck the only really good economic engine we have. — 00:02:58

00:03:20 — Pointer to the description on keeping the internet free; what day is it; a blizzard

  • ★★ Hank points viewers to the description, where he has written how they can help keep the internet free. — 00:03:20
  • ★ Hank, unsure what day it is, says he'll see John on Monday and sings that they are having a blizzard. (playful) — 00:03:31

Humor (significant)

  • Hank recalls their dad taking ten-year-old him to see Akira in a dinner theater. — 00:00:14 > «...and I will never forgive him.»
  • Hank's first reason: he doesn't want himself or 95 percent of people under 30 in jail. — 00:01:23 > «I just think it would be really BAD for the American economy if we were all in jail.»
  • Mocking the PROTECT IP Act's contrived acronym name, Hank says it makes him want to co-sponsor a bill of his own. — 00:01:45 > «the Anti Contrived Representations of Name Yielding Mnemonics Seriously Shut Up Congress Act»
  • Under the PROTECT IP Act creators could do nothing to get a flagged video back online. — 00:02:50 > «Because apparently the Motion Picture Association of America is now a law enforcement body.»

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