“The issue is that participants in reader forums often post copyrighted material, such as an image or an article. Under the current law, as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, website owners are protected from massive monetary liability based on the actions of their users if they meet the law’s requirements, such as accepting notifications of copyright conflicts and taking part in a notice-and-takedown procedure for complaints. …EFF warned that the little guys will suffer. What’s truly frightening about this rule is who it’s likely to affect the most. YouTube and Facebook will be fine. It’s small companies, small nonprofits, and activist groups that are at risk – the same groups that are most poorly poised to fight copyright infringement suits.” –Source

Without doing a bit more research into this, (as I plan to do) I don’t see how “the little guys will suffer” much unless they’re already breaking copyright law. And those “little guys” I assume are ministries like mine as well as blogs and forums run by people with somewhat of a following. The only way I see the little guys being hurt is if they don’t place the source of every quote they offer on their sites, or if they actually make money with those quotes. I praise the Lord many years ago He revealed to me that I must share the legit source to every quote I offer and or posted on Usenet when exposing the Roman Catholic church for two reasons. #1, it made it impossible for the Roman Catholic nay sayers on Usenet to refute the truth about their own church fathers and modern day prelates, and #2, the Lord knew this day would come when Rome’s attack on free speech would be realized and so I needed to make it a habit to post every source on every quote I found.  Continue reading →