Tucked away in the more than 5,000-page long Covid-19 stimulus bill is a new law that severely punishes streamers that pirate large amounts of copyrighted content.
Tillis said that this practice costs the US economy nearly $30 billion yearly. «This commonsense legislation was drafted with the input of creators, user groups, and technology companies and is narrowly targeted so that only criminal organizations are punished and that no individual streamer has to worry about the fear of prosecution,» he wrote in a statement. If a violator is prosecuted, they could be imprisoned up to 10 years for multiple offenses, and they could be fined.
