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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:55 – Court: ‘Falsely’ Accused ‘Movie Pirate’ Deserves $17K Compensation https://torrentfreak.com/court-falsely-accused-movie-pirate-deserves-17k-compensation-161206/
• 7:39 – UN rules for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to be freed http://www.geopolmonitor.com/breaking-un-rules-julian-assange-freed/
• 10:53 – Phone encryption: Police ‘mug’ suspect to get data http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819

15:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Accomack County (Virginia) Public Schools http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/virginia-schools-ban-to-kill-a-mockingbird-huckleberry-finn-for-racial-slurs/472065070

• Classic novels pulled from Accomack County Public Schools http://wavy.com/2016/11/30/classic-novels-pulled-from-accomack-county-public-schools/
• Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

23:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The US Copyright Office https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161201/18084736170/every-website-needs-to-re-register-with-copyright-office-who-cant-build-functioning-system.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Take the addition, the changes, the copyright’s turn, take the changes to copyright’s scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never.” —Lawrence Lessig