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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with ‘natural’ style to save electricity http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-energy-crisis-president-tells-women-to-stop-using-hairdryers-and-go-with-natural-style-to-a6976246.html
• 8:31 – School’s new policy bans parents from walking children to school http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story
• 13:27 – Supreme Court Rules Against Freezing Assets Not Tied to Crimes http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-freezing-assets-not-tied-to-crimes.html

23:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Brian Bergstein https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/

31:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-says-youtube-is-running-a-dmca-protection-racket-160412/

This Week’s Quote: “Our trend in copyright law has been to enclose as much as we can; the consequence of this enclosure is a stifling of creativity and innovation. If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/whatsapp-encryption.html
• 7:15 – Appeals Court Says Backpage.com Is Not Liable For Sex Trafficking Done Via Its Site https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160315/08201233910/appeals-court-says-backpagecom-is-not-liable-sex-trafficking-done-via-site.shtml
• 17:53 – EU Court Of Justice Advocate General Says Open WiFi Operators Shouldn’t Be Liable For Infringement https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20160316/13090133923/eu-court-justice-advocate-general-says-open-wifi-operators-shouldnt-be-liable-infringement.shtml

22:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama https://youtu.be/FhFibpHSJFE?t=1h21m17s

• Obama tells tech community to solve encryption problem now or pay later http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/11/11207480/obama-sxsw-2016-fbi-apple-encryption
• Obama Just Made His Dumbest Comments on Encryption Yet http://gizmodo.com/obama-just-made-his-dumbest-comments-on-encryption-yet-1764388286
• No, you backoff on backdoors or else http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/03/no-you-backoff-on-backdoors-or-lese.html
  Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says

35:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Dianne Feinstein https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160309/23380133854/senator-feinstein-revives-stupid-idea-that-internet-companies-are-materially-supporting-terrorism-if-isis-members-use-their.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” —Louis Brandeis

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Co-Host Takeover 2: Electric Boogaloo

With Dave Turcotte, Jakob Morris, and Charles Thomas

• 1:23 – The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/
• 9:37 – Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/us/actors-in-pornographic-films-fight-proposal-to-enforce-safety-regulations.html
  • Dear New York Times https://medium.com/@MissLoreleiLee/dear-new-york-times-9f64155b5e19
• 15:23 – Where’s The Fair Use? – Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI
  • TEAMFOURSTAR AND YOUTUBE: Where’s the Fair Use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHbJ9U8YLY
  • Where’s the Fair Use? – AlphaOmegaSin #WTFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoQM_Z-CUc
  • Make YouTube Great Again – AlphaOmegaSin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3HTQGzAzw
  • Why the DMCA is Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_84-p4kac
  • Early Copyright History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aOHpn_vqQ
  • Pirates Spend Much More Money on Music, Study Shows https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-music-study-shows-160226/
  • Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20150623-story.html

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ7d9Fjhr0Lw0niz1_1nlQ

News of the Bogus:

• 0:48 – NC Forfeiture Victim Wins Final Vindication In Fight Against IRS http://ij.org/press-release/nc-forfeiture-victim-wins-final-vindication-in-fight-against-irs/
  • Monkey See, Monkey Do, But Judge Says Monkey Gets No Copyright https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160129/14291233463/monkey-see-monkey-do-judge-says-monkey-gets-no-copyright.shtml
• 7:10 – On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905
• 16:22 – Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/judge-rules-fbi-unlawfully-refused-answer-foia-requests

21:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Remso Martinez http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/why-president-cruz-would-be-good-for-liberty/

28:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New South Wales, Australia (nominated by Nick Sirman) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-last-person-sydney-please-turn-lights-out-matt-barrie

This Week’s Quote: “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Cosplay Goes to the Supreme Court https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/cosplay-goes-to-the-supreme-court/
  • Is it illegal for Firefly fans to make and sell Jayne hats? http://grenacia.livejournal.com/167895.html
• 9:11 – Prosecutors Say Cops Don’t Need Warrants For Stingrays Because ‘Everyone Knows’ Cell Phones Generate Location Data https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160116/09085933354/prosecutors-say-cops-dont-need-warrants-stingrays-because-everyone-knows-cell-phones-generate-location-data.shtml
• 16:12 – U.S. Air Force Veteran, Smeared as “an ISIS Fighter,” Just Returned to the U.S. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/u-s-air-force-veteran-saadiq-long-smeared-as-an-isis-fighter-just-returned-to-the-u-s/

22:48 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Flint, MI (nominated by Blake Pettys)

• Flint’s water crisis reveals government failures at every level https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flints-water-crisis-reveals-government-failures-at-every-level/2016/01/23/03705f0c-c11e-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
• Flint residents told that their children could be taken away if they don’t pay for city’s poison water http://www.sott.net/article/310897-Flint-residents-told-that-their-children-could-be-taken-away-if-they-dont-pay-for-citys-poison-water
• Flint water victims can’t sue the government. That’s another crime. http://theweek.com/articles/601521/flint-water-victims-cant-sue-government-thats-another-crime
• Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/28/amid-denials-state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lenovo http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/shareit-file-sharing.html

This Week’s Quote: “At some point, during every stage show I do, I take a sip of water and ask the audience, ‘How’s the water here?’ I haven’t gotten a positive response yet. Not one. Nobody trusts their water supply. Nobody. And that amuses me. Because it means the system is beginning to collapse…I’m glad the water sucks.” —George Carlin

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Here is ISIS’s statement claiming responsibility for the Paris attacks http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9734794/isis-claim-paris-statement
  • French oppose military intervention in Syria and don’t trust Francois Hollande to carry it out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10278076/French-oppose-military-intervention-in-Syria-and-dont-trust-Francois-Hollande-to-carry-it-out.html
  • NOP Poll of British Muslims http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/291
  • As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml
  • Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html
  • Paris attacks: CIA’s John Brennan says there had been ‘strategic warning’ of Paris attack http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/paris-attack-warning-cia-john-brennan-215922
  • In a crisis, people will believe the worst about Uber http://qz.com/550415/in-a-crisis-people-will-believe-the-worst-about-uber/
  • What’s Going On With The Protests At The University Of Missouri?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protests-university-of-missouri_56401af5e4b0307f2cade647
  • Black Activists Double Down on Hate with #F***Paris Hashtag – Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/black-activist-double-white-hate-fparis-hashtag/
  • Black Son of a MULTIMILLIONAIRE, STILL the SJW victim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phA_mGxR4-A
  • CNN New Day Saturday – Tom Fuentes https://iqmediacorp.com/ClipPlayer/?ClipID=0d0e5a03-1bd4-450f-9834-8b8099d98d78
• 31:29 – A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
• 35:00 – Martel Police Body Camera Virus Found Embedded into Camera http://www.goipower.com/?pageId=40

38:39 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anne Frank Fonds https://torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-scandal-an-underreported-copyright-monopoly-abuse-151115/

• Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades http://boingboing.net/2015/11/14/copyfraud-anne-frank-foundati.html
• Anne Frank gets co-author to extend copyright http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anne-Frank-gets-co-author-to-extend-copyright-434409
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://hpmor.com/
• BlameThe1st | FanFiction https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6244873/BlameThe1st

49:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Klein Collins High School http://www.houstonpress.com/news/drug-test-proves-high-school-girl-wasnt-high-school-suspends-her-anyway-7926436

This Week’s Quote: “Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we’ve seen—the Internet—has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don’t get in the way of this ideology.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Kim Dotcom Finally Launches Extradition Defense https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-finally-launches-extradition-defense-151102/
• 8:37 – Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
  • ‘Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption’ – Baroness Shields http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/28/government_will_not_pass_laws_to_ban_encryption_says_baroness_shields/
  • X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/
• 22:23 – DOD’S Compressed Natural Gas Filling Station In Afghanistan: An Ill-Conceived $43 Million Project https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/special%20projects/SIGAR-16-2-SP.pdf

29:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canadian-researcher-targeted-by-hate-campaign-over-fukushima-findings/article27060613/

34:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Simon Maloy http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/charles_kochs_power_trip_billionaire_libertarian_sees_no_problem_in_buying_the_sort_of_government_he_prefers/

This Week’s Quote: “The energy potentially available to us is for all practical purposes unlimited; but access to it is blocked. It is blocked, above all, by anti-technology sentiment, environmental paranoia, and interference in natural markets. Beyond these obstacles, there is little that science and technology cannot eventually overcome. We further believe that pollution and destruction of the environment is not an essential by product of technology; on the contrary, more science and better technology are needed to keep the environment clean.” —Petr Beckmann

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – The Drone Papers https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
• 14:15 – Students: Transgender Woman Can’t Be Diversity Officer Because She’s a White Man Now http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390425/students-transgender-woman-cant-be-diversity-officer-because-shes-white-man-now
• 17:48 – Musician Demands Google, Major Labels Pay Him $325 Million For Removing Videos He Paid $30 To Upload To Vevo https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151010/13402432497/musician-demands-google-major-labels-pay-him-325-million-removing-videos-he-paid-30-to-upload-to-vevo.shtml

25:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sheldon Whitehouse https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151021/15335432591/sheldon-whitehouse-freaks-out-blames-pro-botnet-lobby-rejecting-his-terrible-cfaa-amendment.shtml

31:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: CNN (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/

• Online media vs online polls http://nativenews.tumblr.com/post/131163537671/edieismene-online-media-vs-online-polls
• Sanders Won All Major Polls, But Corp Media Declared http://www.drudge.com/news/192379/sanders-won-all-major-polls-but-corp-media
• Fuming Bernie supporters: Why is CNN deleting our comments? http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2015/10/fuming-bernie-supporters-why-is-cnn-deleting-our-comments

This Week’s Quote: “You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience. One of them is less a medium than an environment—the Internet—with a huge multiplicity of points of view, lots of different ways to find out what’s going on in the world…a cacophony of viewpoints that doesn’t have any political coherence at all, a beautiful melee, but it doesn’t have the capacity to create large blocs of belief. The other medium, TV, has a…very uniform belief block. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.” —John Perry Barlow

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

0:27 – Update: LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/

News of the Bogus:

• 3:51 – Online Piracy Drops in Australia, Thanks to Netflix https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-drops-in-australia-netflix-151014/
• 9:38 – California nixes warrantless search of digital data https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/13/california-nixes-warrantless-search-of-digital-data/
• 14:41 – CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu

22:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: James Comey https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151011/21185732508/james-comey-says-dozens-terrorists-have-eluded-fbi-thanks-to-encryption.shtml

25:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Carson http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/ben-carson-brain-surgeon-or-brain-addled/

37:38 – Tag: PredictIt | Who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election? https://www.predictit.org/Market/1234/Who-will-win-the-2016-US-presidential-election

This Week’s Quote: “Some might say ‘I don’t care if they violate my privacy; I’ve got nothing to hide.’ Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they ‘need’ a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right…Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” —Edward Snowden

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Update:

0:24 – All the ‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 1:34 – Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom https://torrentfreak.com/presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig-steps-up-to-assist-kim-dotcom-150916/
  • Kim Dotcom case is ’simple fraud’, court told http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/24/kim-dotcom-case-is-simple-court-told
  • U.S. Uncovers Kim Dotcom’s Self-incriminating Skype Calls https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-uncovers-kim-dotcoms-self-incriminating-skype-calls-150924/
• 7:26 – TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-luggage-locks-hacked/
  • Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones/2015/09/16/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html
• 13:11 – George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150921/11301932319/george-w-bush-tried-to-retroactively-declare-illegal-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-legal-because-he-said-so.shtml

17:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: NYPD Union President Patrick J. Lynch http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/PatLynchLetter1.pdf

22:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PETA https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150922/11063332329/monkey-business-peta-sues-behalf-monkey-selfie-claims-copyright-belongs-to-monkey.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “When we’ve got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we’ll realize that we’re no longer citizens—we’re subjects.” —Edward Snowden