WEBVTT
00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.960
The Bogosity Podcast,
early and ad-free!
00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:11.200
Become a subscriber at Patreon,
SubscribeStar, or Discord.
00:00:11.222 --> 00:00:14.266
Use the links at donate.bogosity.tv.
00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.840
Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast
for the week of November 2nd 2025,
00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:32.844
the podcast that made
Gilligan dress as a girl.
00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.760
This is your host, Shane Killian. Let's
denotate the News of the Bogus.
00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:46.160
If you're on any social media at all,
00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:51.360
you can't have escaped the controversy of SNAP
benefits ceasing due to the government shutdown.
00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:56.438
Of course, Congressman and Senators
are still getting full pay and benefits...
00:00:56.438 --> 00:01:01.438
Yeah, it's one of the ways they have of
deliberately making the so-called "shutdown"
00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.688
felt by the greatest number of people
00:01:03.689 --> 00:01:07.939
without actually having to shut down
anything they feel is actually important,
00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:10.960
all so people will
blame the other party.
00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:14.560
SNAP is the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program,
00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:21.520
the food stamps used by 42 million Americans
who, on average, get about $187 a month.
00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:26.205
It goes on a card that can only be
spent on food that hasn't been heated.
00:01:26.205 --> 00:01:28.800
SNAP's website now reads:
00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:34.160
"Senate Democrats have now voted 12
times to not fund the food stamp program.
00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:36.756
Bottom line, the well has run dry.
00:01:36.757 --> 00:01:40.640
At this time, there will be no
benefits issued November 1.
00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.222
We are approaching an inflection
point for Senate Democrats.
00:01:44.222 --> 00:01:50.023
They can continue to hold out for healthcare for
illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures
00:01:50.024 --> 00:01:55.023
or reopen the government so mothers,
babies, and the most vulnerable among us
00:01:55.024 --> 00:01:58.378
can receive critical
nutrition assistance."
00:01:58.380 --> 00:02:02.060
Although Republicans have a majority
in both the House and the Senate,
00:02:02.060 --> 00:02:08.940
under Senate rules a minority can block passage of a
bill unless the majority gets 60 votes to override it.
00:02:08.940 --> 00:02:17.340
Republicans have 53 seats to the Democrats' 47, and
each time the vote has been split along party lines.
00:02:17.340 --> 00:02:23.740
Democrats are accusing the Trump Administration of
not releasing contingency funds to keep SNAP going,
00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:29.500
but the US Department of Agriculture, who runs the
SNAP program, released a memo that said, quote:
00:02:29.500 --> 00:02:34.518
"SNAP contingency funds are only available
to supplement regular monthly benefits
00:02:34.519 --> 00:02:39.500
when amounts have been appropriated
for, but are insufficient to cover, benefits."
00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:46.620
"Instead, the contingency fund is a source of funds
for contingencies, such as the Disaster SNAP program,
00:02:46.620 --> 00:02:51.020
which provides food purchasing benefits
for individuals in disaster areas,
00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:57.900
including natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes,
and floods, that can come on quickly and without notice.
00:02:57.900 --> 00:03:03.980
For example, Hurricane Melissa is currently
swirling in the Caribbean and could reach Florida.
00:03:03.980 --> 00:03:11.580
Having funds readily available allows the USDA to mobilize
quickly in the days and weeks following a disaster."
00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:17.580
They explained that using the funds to cover SNAP would
transfer money away from child nutrition programs,
00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:20.940
which provide funds for school
lunches and infant formula.
00:03:20.940 --> 00:03:25.322
They put the blame on Democrats for
not passing the Continuing Resolution
00:03:25.323 --> 00:03:28.633
that would have provided
funding to the program. Quote:
00:03:28.633 --> 00:03:33.660
"Due to Congressional Democrats' refusal
to pass a clean continuing resolution,
00:03:33.660 --> 00:03:39.500
approximately 42 million individuals will not
receive their SNAP benefits come November 1st.
00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:42.699
This jeopardizes all SNAP
recipients in November,
00:03:42.699 --> 00:03:46.780
including those that have applied for
benefits in the last half of October,
00:03:46.780 --> 00:03:52.540
and furloughed Federal employees who will not
receive their combined October/November benefits."
00:03:52.540 --> 00:03:57.923
That didn't stop two federal district judges
from again overstepping their authority
00:03:57.924 --> 00:04:02.060
to order the Administration to use
the contingency funds for SNAP.
00:04:02.060 --> 00:04:06.300
So what do they expect the USDA to do if
there's a much bigger problem coming through,
00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:09.340
that the contingency funds
are supposed to be used for?
00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:12.780
We just had the Category
5 Melissa blow through!
00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:17.100
What about the next hurricane or
typhoon or earthquake or whatever?
00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:21.100
Contingency funds
are for contingencies.
00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:25.900
That's probably too high a concept for
the mental capacity of federal judges.
00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:31.420
The problem is, federal district judges have no
authority whatsoever over federal spending.
00:04:31.420 --> 00:04:37.820
Contingency and discretionary spending is
100% under the control of the Executive,
00:04:37.820 --> 00:04:41.500
and judges can only operate
in the Judicial branch.
00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:47.820
Of course, one of these is the same judge who tried
to block Congress from defunding Planned Parenthood.
00:04:47.820 --> 00:04:53.020
Seriously, the Supreme Court just needs
to grow a pair and smack them down!
00:04:53.020 --> 00:04:56.620
The main problem is completely
visible on the socials.
00:04:56.620 --> 00:05:04.220
Theoretically, SNAP is supposed to be a safety net, a
temporary measure to keep families fed during hard times.
00:05:04.220 --> 00:05:07.316
But what we see on TikTok
and other video media sites
00:05:07.317 --> 00:05:12.540
are complaints from people who openly
say they are using SNAP as a lifestyle,
00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:16.300
a regular household budget
item they're entitled to.
00:05:16.300 --> 00:05:20.540
Many of them go even further and claim
they're going to just steal food from stores,
00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:23.420
and are encouraging
others to do so as well.
00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:29.260
Here, we see the fallacy of the welfare
state laid bare—and this is by design.
00:05:29.260 --> 00:05:34.780
Instead of being a safety net, it's become
a program of entitlement and dependency,
00:05:34.780 --> 00:05:37.878
locking in millions of
Americans to poverty that,
00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:43.020
unlike any period in American
history before, became generational.
00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:49.878
Which is exactly why Thomas Sowell called it, "The
biggest and most deadly tax rate on the poor."
00:05:53.922 --> 00:05:58.140
Presenting: the greatest
game this side of Yuggoth!
00:05:58.140 --> 00:06:03.789
You are H.P. Lovecraft's
cat, and your name is Ni***
00:06:03.789 --> 00:06:10.540
...Right. We can't say that on a podcast. Anyway,
that's the point: Your name is a joke to him.
00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:13.420
So now, you are out for revenge!
00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:17.100
Using the Necronomicon, you come
to the present day to buy a gun
00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.340
to go vanquish him once and for all.
00:06:19.340 --> 00:06:24.540
But the Necronomicon is devious, and it
summoned Lovecraft's monsters as well.
00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:29.740
Now, in a crumbling world, you
must fight for the revenge you seek.
00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:35.260
Fight monsters. Gain allies. Buy guns
and armor for yourself and your team.
00:06:35.260 --> 00:06:37.580
Defeat the bosses of each level.
00:06:37.580 --> 00:06:41.660
Then get your revenge
against Lovecraft himself.
00:06:41.660 --> 00:06:48.060
Play Lovecraft's Cat! The
link is at cat.bogosity.tv.
00:06:48.060 --> 00:06:52.700
Yeah, we're doing cat.bogosity.tv,
not...that other one.
00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:55.400
What, you want me to get kicked
off the Internet or something?
00:07:00.620 --> 00:07:04.140
One of the disturbing trends we've
been seeing recently in lawsuits
00:07:04.140 --> 00:07:08.460
is the threat to freedom and fair use
that come from anti-scraping actions.
00:07:08.460 --> 00:07:13.420
For decades, courts have recognized that
scraping of public data on the Internet is legal,
00:07:13.420 --> 00:07:15.820
but in particular
with the AI lawsuits,
00:07:15.820 --> 00:07:21.500
it seems the big content cartels are making
another go at stopping web crawlers,
00:07:21.500 --> 00:07:25.940
search engines, archives, and
other public data repositories.
00:07:25.940 --> 00:07:31.667
Now, Reddit has sued Perplexity
AI for scraping its public data,
00:07:31.667 --> 00:07:37.660
yet another in a series of cases where companies
have been trying to wall off the open Internet.
00:07:37.660 --> 00:07:44.060
What's unique—and disturbing—about
this is its novel twisting of copyright law
00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:48.140
that could completely break
how the web operates.
00:07:48.140 --> 00:07:55.180
The complaint isn't that they're scraping Reddit, it's
that they're scraping Google's scraping of Reddit,
00:07:55.180 --> 00:08:00.620
and in so doing, violating the
anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA.
00:08:00.620 --> 00:08:05.420
Google isn't a party to the lawsuit, and
Reddit is making no claim against them.
00:08:05.420 --> 00:08:07.340
Reddit said in their complaint:
00:08:07.340 --> 00:08:11.100
"These tools are aimed at
bypassing two levels of security:
00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:14.140
First, evading Reddit's own
anti-scraping measures,
00:08:14.140 --> 00:08:16.940
and second, circumventing
Google's controls
00:08:16.940 --> 00:08:21.100
and scraping Reddit content directly
from Google's search engine results.
00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:25.660
In a very real sense, these Defendants
are similar to would-be bank robbers,
00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:32.860
who, knowing they cannot get into the bank vault, break
into the armored truck carrying the cash instead."
00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:37.020
Yes, that's every bit as
batshit crazy as it sounds!
00:08:37.020 --> 00:08:41.020
And, of course, they filed it in the
Southern District of New York.
00:08:41.020 --> 00:08:46.780
The start of it is that Reddit signed a
$60 million scraping deal with Google.
00:08:46.780 --> 00:08:54.860
That's sketchy enough to begin with, since Reddit doesn't
own the copyright on forum posts; the users who posted it do.
00:08:54.860 --> 00:08:58.473
Add to that, the deal includes
a guarantee that Reddit
00:08:58.473 --> 00:09:02.620
will get at least a certain amount of
traffic from Google search results.
00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:06.540
They've been using that agreement
to ask money from other AI providers,
00:09:06.540 --> 00:09:10.620
while at the same time insisting on
more money and traffic from Google.
00:09:10.620 --> 00:09:15.340
The next issue is: Perplexity
didn't scrape anything for AI!
00:09:15.340 --> 00:09:18.860
It's an AI that operates as
an intelligent search engine,
00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:24.540
but its LLMs are based on open source
LLMs including Llama and Mistral.
00:09:24.540 --> 00:09:28.874
It was actually the first to combine a
traditional search engine with an LLM
00:09:28.874 --> 00:09:32.829
to provide both answers to
queries and links to the sources,
00:09:32.829 --> 00:09:36.140
something most other search
engines now have as well.
00:09:36.140 --> 00:09:43.020
The only scraping they've ever done is the traditional
old-fashioned way search engines have always done.
00:09:43.020 --> 00:09:50.780
So basically, when an answer to a user query comes from
and links to a Reddit post, Reddit wants to be paid for it.
00:09:50.780 --> 00:09:56.380
And although this is exactly how the open Internet
has always worked and is supposed to work,
00:09:56.380 --> 00:10:00.198
Reddit is turning that into
something nefarious. Quote:
00:10:00.198 --> 00:10:04.220
"They do so by masking their
identities, hiding their locations,
00:10:04.220 --> 00:10:08.510
and disguising their web scrapers as
regular people (among other techniques)
00:10:08.510 --> 00:10:12.860
to circumvent or bypass the security
restrictions meant to stop them.
00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:20.847
For example, during a two-week span in July 2025,
Defendants SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy
00:10:20.848 --> 00:10:27.340
circumvented Google's technological control measures
and automatedly accessed, without authorization,
00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:35.291
almost three billion search engine results pages
containing Reddit text, URLs, images, and videos."
00:10:35.291 --> 00:10:38.780
That isn't in any way circumvention!
00:10:38.780 --> 00:10:43.340
Yes, this is their old favorite,
Section 1201 of the DMCA,
00:10:43.340 --> 00:10:49.260
which they try to make everything fit
because there's no fair use defense for it.
00:10:49.260 --> 00:10:55.158
And advocates of the open Internet have been
talking for decades about how it's commonly abused,
00:10:55.159 --> 00:11:00.735
how it threatens innovation, and how it
should be completely and utterly abolished.
00:11:00.735 --> 00:11:06.291
They want Section 1201 to say that anything
you do to access a copyrighted work
00:11:06.292 --> 00:11:14.380
is automatically a copyright infringement even if the
use of the copyrighted content isn't infringing at all.
00:11:14.380 --> 00:11:20.220
All they have to do is show that it violates a
"technological control measure" of some kind,
00:11:20.220 --> 00:11:25.260
which, as I recently covered regarding
the RIAA cases against Suno and Udio,
00:11:25.260 --> 00:11:31.020
could be something as simple as hitting
the F12 key and manually copying a link!
00:11:31.020 --> 00:11:35.820
In the past, Section 1201 has been
used to stop Linux DVD players,
00:11:35.820 --> 00:11:40.300
cheaper inkjet cartridges, even
cheaper garage door openers.
00:11:40.300 --> 00:11:46.540
In this case, they want it to mean getting scraped data
from a search engine instead of from the site directly.
00:11:46.540 --> 00:11:54.140
And they're doing it by claiming that it's Google's TCM that
they're bypassing, even though Google isn't even a party!
00:11:54.140 --> 00:12:00.540
Add to that the fact that they're making this claim over
content that they hold no copyright over whatsoever,
00:12:00.540 --> 00:12:08.140
and you have what is quite possibly the
most insane DMCA case since its inception!
00:12:08.140 --> 00:12:16.940
And in an unbelievable act of chutzpah, they even brag in the
filing itself that they're champions of the open Internet!
00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:20.700
Quote: "Because Reddit has always
believed in the open internet,
00:12:20.700 --> 00:12:27.260
it takes its role as a steward of its users' communities,
discussions, and authentic human discourse seriously.
00:12:27.260 --> 00:12:30.620
Through this action, Reddit seeks
to end Defendants' circumvention
00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:33.260
of security measures
protecting Reddit data,
00:12:33.260 --> 00:12:38.140
blatant misuse of Reddit content,
and disrespect for its users' rights,
00:12:38.140 --> 00:12:44.140
all of which harm Reddit and its hundreds of
thousands of authentic human communities."
00:12:44.140 --> 00:12:48.060
They also filed: "Reddit
believes in an open internet,
00:12:48.060 --> 00:12:54.860
but it does not believe that third parties have a right
to misuse public content just because it's public."
00:12:54.860 --> 00:12:58.780
Well, then, you don't believe
in the open Internet, do ya???
00:12:58.780 --> 00:13:06.827
No, this is extortion, plain and simple. And if it
succeeds, no website anywhere will be safe.
00:13:12.380 --> 00:13:14.860
If you're on the Wi-Fi in
a coffee shop or hotel,
00:13:14.860 --> 00:13:17.180
anyone on that network can
get access to your traffic.
00:13:17.180 --> 00:13:19.420
Do you really trust all
of those strangers?
00:13:19.420 --> 00:13:22.300
For that matter, do you
really trust your ISP?
00:13:22.300 --> 00:13:28.380
A VPN can protect you from prying eyes, disguise
your location, and even foil government censors.
00:13:28.380 --> 00:13:35.020
It's essential in this day and age, so go to
vpn.bogosity.tv and you'll be taken to BoxPN.
00:13:35.020 --> 00:13:36.460
Starting at just $2.99/month,
00:13:37.020 --> 00:13:41.580
you can get unlimited high-speed connections
to VPN servers all over the world,
00:13:41.580 --> 00:13:45.020
and they don't log connections
so your privacy is assured.
00:13:45.020 --> 00:13:50.220
Travelling abroad, just VPN home and don't worry
about what those other governments are doing.
00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:53.100
Back at home, stop your
ISP from traffic-shaping
00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:57.100
and messing with the quality internet
access you're paying good money for.
00:13:57.100 --> 00:14:00.860
You can connect from multiple machines at
once, including your smartphone or tablet,
00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:05.820
and it supports all the secure standards
including OpenVPN and SSTP.
00:14:05.820 --> 00:14:12.298
Bypass censors and surveillance with your own
secure VPN connection. Go to vpn.bogosity.tv.
00:14:18.540 --> 00:14:24.940
It's pretty much an unspoken but agreed-upon
rule: if you want a civilization, you need energy.
00:14:24.940 --> 00:14:28.540
And the more efficient
energy you have, the better.
00:14:28.540 --> 00:14:31.660
Unfortunately, as we've covered
in the past on this podcast,
00:14:31.660 --> 00:14:37.660
the lobbying behind renewables and the
anti-nuclear propaganda have really held us back.
00:14:37.660 --> 00:14:43.020
We're just not making anywhere near the clean,
safe, affordable power we could be making.
00:14:43.020 --> 00:14:46.220
Fortunately, in recent years
that seems to be changing,
00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:48.984
with a nuclear revival
throughout much of the world
00:14:48.985 --> 00:14:54.620
and in particular in the second Trump Administration
thanks to a series of executive orders.
00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:59.651
OpenAI just sent a submission to the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy
00:14:59.652 --> 00:15:03.100
letting them know just how much
catching up we have to do,
00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:07.660
especially if we want to outcompete China
as a world technological superpower.
00:15:07.660 --> 00:15:16.060
They pointed out that, in 2024, the US added
51GW of capacity while China added 429,
00:15:16.060 --> 00:15:19.420
building energy capacity
over eight times faster.
00:15:19.420 --> 00:15:26.060
While the US is leading the world in AI technology,
the Chinese might pull ahead in AI infrastructure,
00:15:26.060 --> 00:15:33.580
since datacenters in the US are exposing just how much
deficiencies in the grid limit how quickly we can grow.
00:15:33.580 --> 00:15:35.260
They told the White House:
00:15:35.260 --> 00:15:39.980
"Limits on how much electricity the US
can generate to power AI development
00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:44.380
threaten both our ability to seize
this once-in-a-century opportunity,
00:15:44.380 --> 00:15:49.420
and our advantage on the most consequential
technology since electricity itself.
00:15:49.420 --> 00:15:54.981
For the US, unlocking electrons will unlock
our greatest national economic opportunity
00:15:54.982 --> 00:15:58.940
since electricity drove the
latter half of the Industrial Age.
00:15:58.940 --> 00:16:03.955
Electricity is a strategic asset—it
underpins the US AI advantage
00:16:03.956 --> 00:16:10.140
and in turn, our economic competitiveness,
technological leadership, and national security."
00:16:10.140 --> 00:16:17.180
In the last seven months, OpenAI's weekly user base
has doubled from 400 million to 800 million users,
00:16:17.180 --> 00:16:20.860
and that doesn't count people
using other AI technologies.
00:16:20.860 --> 00:16:24.544
So they're calling on the Trump
Administration to work with the private sector
00:16:24.545 --> 00:16:28.540
to increase our electricity
growth to 100GW a year.
00:16:28.540 --> 00:16:33.420
That pretty much needs to be nuclear, but
that'll take a few years to get underway,
00:16:33.420 --> 00:16:38.220
even assuming you can get the NRC to
release its stranglehold on the industry.
00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:42.540
They even make it difficult to simply
restart existing nuclear plants,
00:16:42.540 --> 00:16:47.740
like the Duane Arnold Energy Center in
Iowa, the state's one and only nuclear plant.
00:16:47.740 --> 00:16:55.100
That's expected to go critical in 2029, four years
from now. But we do know how to build them faster.
00:16:55.100 --> 00:17:05.738
Onagawa units 2 and 3 were built in just 3 years 7 months
and 3 years 3 months, respectively, each proving 825MWe.
00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:11.954
And if you're wondering how safe they are: they
both went undamaged in the 2011 Tōhoku event
00:17:11.955 --> 00:17:19.100
despite being closer to the earthquake epicenter
and being hit with a larger tsunami than Fukushima.
00:17:19.100 --> 00:17:25.500
We know how to do this, people! Only idiot
government regulators stand in the way.
00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:30.060
The advantage, though, is that
this will be real energy generation.
00:17:30.060 --> 00:17:35.180
Most of that 429GW that China
has built is solar and wind,
00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:39.740
and due to the way they measure capacity,
you're not actually getting that much.
00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:44.940
Solar and wind only output about
17% of nameplate capacity,
00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:50.218
so that 429GW is actually about 73GW.
00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:53.402
And the thing is, we've covered
stories in the past about how
00:17:53.403 --> 00:17:57.740
the increased power demands of
datacenters are way overblown.
00:17:57.740 --> 00:18:05.420
If you wanted to solve our energy issues by stopping AI,
then you're trying to bail out the Titanic with a thimble.
00:18:05.420 --> 00:18:12.060
Datacenters aren't causing the issues with our
energy infrastructure; they're just exposing it.
00:18:12.060 --> 00:18:18.860
And even absent AI, with Americans facing
rising energy costs, this needs to happen.
00:18:25.180 --> 00:18:28.780
I want to tell you about the eyeglasses
I've been wearing for years.
00:18:28.780 --> 00:18:32.220
As people can see on my videos,
I have a very strong prescription,
00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:36.220
which makes glasses more expensive,
especially when I need computer glasses,
00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:38.540
reading glasses,
prescription sunglasses,
00:18:38.540 --> 00:18:43.180
and most expensively, progressive
lenses for general everyday wear.
00:18:43.180 --> 00:18:47.580
To save money while still getting
quality glasses, I get them from Firmoo.
00:18:47.580 --> 00:18:51.660
In fact, I just got a pair of progressives
with high index aspherical lenses
00:18:51.660 --> 00:18:55.900
in a nice pair of frames my
wife loves, for just over $100.
00:18:55.900 --> 00:18:59.180
It would have been $500 to get
them through my eye doctor.
00:18:59.180 --> 00:19:01.980
Not only do they look good,
the glasses are durable.
00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:05.500
I've worn many pairs for several
years without problems.
00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:08.060
All orders come with a
30-day return policy,
00:19:08.060 --> 00:19:11.660
a 3-month warranty, and
one-on-one customer service.
00:19:11.660 --> 00:19:20.380
Go to firmoo.bogosity.tv any time you
need quality glasses at a low price.
00:19:20.380 --> 00:19:25.036
Once again, that's
firmoo.bogosity.tv.
00:19:33.260 --> 00:19:37.740
And now it's time to preactivate
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
00:19:37.740 --> 00:19:42.620
The DMCA was absolutely the best
law ever passed for copyright trolls.
00:19:42.620 --> 00:19:47.980
And if you think that's an accident, I got
news for you, sunshine: it's the idea.
00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:55.180
The more the big content cartels can make life difficult
for startups and competitors, the happier they are.
00:19:55.180 --> 00:19:59.900
AI has merely provided fantastic
new opportunities for it.
00:19:59.900 --> 00:20:07.980
Case in point: Meta being sued by rightsholders Strike
3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, two porn giants.
00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:12.700
They've filed tens of thousands of lawsuits
against alleged BitTorrent pirates,
00:20:12.700 --> 00:20:17.580
and now they're aiming higher.
Gotta sue them deep pockets!
00:20:17.580 --> 00:20:21.481
In Kadrey v. Meta, the only
surviving part of that case
00:20:21.482 --> 00:20:27.820
is the allegation that Meta engaged in copyright
infringement merely by using BitTorrent,
00:20:27.820 --> 00:20:33.980
regardless of whether their ultimate use was
fair, which the judge already found that it was.
00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:39.081
So based on that, Strike 3 and Counterlife
looked through their archive of BitTorrent data
00:20:39.082 --> 00:20:42.060
for any Meta-adjacent IP addresses.
00:20:42.060 --> 00:20:48.460
They found 47 of them, and immediately filed a
lawsuit against Meta accusing them of piracy,
00:20:48.460 --> 00:20:55.020
even though courts have said in the past that a
mere IP address isn't sufficient cause for that.
00:20:55.020 --> 00:21:00.940
In particular, the Ninth Circuit, under which the
Northern District of California has its authority,
00:21:00.940 --> 00:21:05.420
found that IP addresses are not
linked to individual identities.
00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:09.500
Not only are IP addresses reused
by ISPs all over the place,
00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:14.860
even at a moment in time an IP address may be
used by many different people in a household,
00:21:14.860 --> 00:21:19.500
a hotel, a coffee shop, or anywhere
else that's behind a NAT router.
00:21:19.500 --> 00:21:22.380
And as Meta pointed
out in their filing, quote:
00:21:22.380 --> 00:21:28.700
"Plaintiffs are familiar with this case law, as
courts have repeatedly admonished them to abide by it,
00:21:28.700 --> 00:21:31.740
but they nevertheless
fail to do so here."
00:21:31.740 --> 00:21:34.220
The timing of it doesn't
even work out, quote:
00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:40.540
"Plaintiffs do not explain how sporadic torrenting
activity that purportedly commenced in 2018—
00:21:40.540 --> 00:21:46.828
years before Meta allegedly began researching
Multimodal Models and Generative Video in 2022—
00:21:46.828 --> 00:21:52.251
could have been intended for purposes of
acquiring content to train such models."
00:21:52.251 --> 00:21:58.060
Another set of copyright trolls accusing
someone of being a time-traveler!
00:21:58.060 --> 00:22:02.940
Moreover, there's no reason to believe that
this was anything corporate at all, quote:
00:22:02.940 --> 00:22:07.711
"Further, the small number of
downloads—roughly 22 per year on average
00:22:07.711 --> 00:22:13.420
across dozens of Meta IP addresses—is
plainly indicative of private personal use,
00:22:13.420 --> 00:22:16.400
not a concerted effort to
collect the massive datasets
00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:19.820
Plaintiffs allege are necessary
for effective AI training."
00:22:19.820 --> 00:22:26.060
In other words, you just have a handful of randos
downloading porn. And you don't even know who they are!
00:22:26.060 --> 00:22:30.380
Even if you could prove the IP addresses
were used by Meta at the time,
00:22:30.380 --> 00:22:37.180
this infringement could have been done by anyone on
their campus, including employees or even visitors.
00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:41.260
Quote: "And there is yet another
conundrum Plaintiffs fail to address:
00:22:41.260 --> 00:22:46.220
why would Meta seek to conceal certain alleged
downloads of Plaintiffs' and third-party content,
00:22:46.220 --> 00:22:52.300
but use easily traceable Meta corporate IP addresses?
The obvious answer is that it would not do so;
00:22:52.300 --> 00:22:56.940
Plaintiffs' entire AI training theory
is nonsensical and unsupported."
00:22:56.940 --> 00:23:00.860
It's not enough to show that those
IP addresses were used by Meta.
00:23:00.860 --> 00:23:05.500
It's not even enough to show that Meta's
network was used to download the videos.
00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:13.340
They need to show that Meta intended it, knew about
it, facilitated it, and had a financial interest in it.
00:23:13.340 --> 00:23:17.020
They can't even show one
of those, let alone all four!
00:23:17.020 --> 00:23:22.327
Quote: "The Complaint fails to state facts
sufficient to state a claim against Meta for direct,
00:23:22.328 --> 00:23:25.580
vicarious, or contributory
copyright liability.
00:23:25.580 --> 00:23:28.940
And these claims fail not only
for lack of supporting facts,
00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:32.860
but also because Plaintiffs'
theory of liability makes no sense
00:23:32.860 --> 00:23:36.140
and cannot be reconciled
with the facts they do plead.
00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:40.700
The entire complaint against Meta
should be dismissed with prejudice."
00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:43.740
It isn't that there's a case
like this here and there.
00:23:43.740 --> 00:23:49.011
It's that you can have one copyright troll
after another after another pile onto it
00:23:49.011 --> 00:23:52.620
and make life difficult for
individuals and businesses.
00:23:52.620 --> 00:23:57.188
Even a lawsuit that gets dismissed can
cost a defendant thousands of dollars.
00:23:57.188 --> 00:24:03.260
Seriously, there should be something similar
to an anti-SLAPP law, only for copybullies.
00:24:03.260 --> 00:24:07.788
So all of that makes those copyright
trolls this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:16.460
Do you have children?
Or nieces or nephews?
00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:18.780
Are you homeschooling,
or just want to counter
00:24:18.780 --> 00:24:22.140
some of the socialist indoctrination
most children get in school?
00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:27.900
If so, go to bogosity.tv/tuttletwins,
and you'll be taken to a website
00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:31.260
where you can get some great
books for elementary-aged children.
00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:35.180
The Tuttle Twins books are books about
liberty and free market economics
00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:39.660
that include children's versions of Bastiat's
The Law, Leonard Read's I, Pencil,
00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:43.260
and Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, as
well as books about the Federal Reserve
00:24:43.260 --> 00:24:45.900
and how regulations
protect business cronies.
00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:48.300
They'll learn about the harm
caused by eminent domain,
00:24:48.300 --> 00:24:52.780
or regulations passed in the name of
safety, and fundamental concepts of liberty.
00:24:52.780 --> 00:24:55.340
And as you can see from the
sample pages on the website,
00:24:55.340 --> 00:24:58.300
they're all easy to read
and nicely illustrated.
00:24:58.300 --> 00:25:01.500
They're just $9.99 apiece,
or get a special discount
00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:04.300
as well as free bonuses
when you purchase all five.
00:25:04.300 --> 00:25:08.060
You can even buy in bulk to donate
to schools and local libraries.
00:25:08.060 --> 00:25:13.872
So get the Tuttle Twins books
at bogosity.tv/tuttletwins.
00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:26.605
And now let's hallucinatorizationalify
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:33.704
You would think that the Biden
Adminstration no longer being a thing
00:25:33.705 --> 00:25:36.620
would mean that Karine
Jean-Pierre wouldn't be getting this.
00:25:36.620 --> 00:25:38.300
You'd be thinking wrong.
00:25:38.300 --> 00:25:44.288
Amazingly, she proved to be even more
of an incredible dumbass on her book tour
00:25:44.289 --> 00:25:50.380
than she did as Biden's press secretary—to the
point where even her former colleagues are cringing.
00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:54.140
A lot of them are kind of disgusted
by the fact that she can't seem to go
00:25:54.140 --> 00:25:57.580
thirty seconds without mentioning
she's a "black queer woman."
00:25:57.580 --> 00:26:03.820
Others are just dumbfounded at the fact that she can't
seem to coherently answer questions about her own book.
00:26:03.820 --> 00:26:09.260
The memoir is titled: Independent: A
Look Inside a Broken White House.
00:26:09.260 --> 00:26:16.780
Weirdly, she tried to retcon the title to The New Yorker by
claiming she was really referring to the Trump White House.
00:26:16.780 --> 00:26:22.860
One Democratic communications strategist
said, quote: "A car crash is fascinating to watch.
00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:28.685
She was the top communicator for the president of the
United States and she can't get through basic interviews"
00:26:28.686 --> 00:26:32.780
and said it was like, quote:
"watching Mike Tyson fight a baby."
00:26:32.780 --> 00:26:38.940
Another former colleague said, quote: "It's like
watching a toddler jump into the deep end of the pool."
00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:41.820
None of them seem to understand
the premise of her book,
00:26:41.820 --> 00:26:47.020
why she didn't seek feedback from any of
them, or even call on them to help promote it.
00:26:47.020 --> 00:26:54.041
Most of the focus is on the summer of 2024 when the
party realized they'd pushed an unelectable dunderhead
00:26:54.042 --> 00:26:59.900
into the nomination without even a single primary,
and then scrambled to figure out what to do.
00:26:59.900 --> 00:27:03.180
Another Biden White
House official said, quote:
00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:05.980
"It's a sad commentary
on where things are.
00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:10.220
The premise of the book doesn't really
make any sense, it's sort of illogical.
00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:13.340
Being back out there and
regurgitating those three weeks:
00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:15.663
it's just unhelpful right now and
00:27:15.664 --> 00:27:21.100
we need to be focusing on the things Democrats
need to be doing to fight back against Trump."
00:27:21.100 --> 00:27:24.940
In a disastrous interview with
Isaac Chotiner, she said:
00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:29.340
"There's a period of time that I questioned what
was happening and how do we treat our own,
00:27:29.340 --> 00:27:31.660
how do we treat people
who are decent people?
00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:34.629
And then you also have to think
about how I'm thinking about this
00:27:34.630 --> 00:27:39.100
as a Black woman who is part
of the LGBTQ+ community,
00:27:39.100 --> 00:27:44.540
and living in this time where I also don't think
Democrats right now, Democrats' leadership,
00:27:44.540 --> 00:27:47.980
is protecting vulnerable people
in the way that it should."
00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:51.660
The official said, quote: "The
interviews use a vernacular,
00:27:51.660 --> 00:27:56.380
which we now acknowledge
doesn't work—very identity focused.
00:27:56.380 --> 00:28:00.233
It's bringing us back in time and
we need to be going forward
00:28:00.233 --> 00:28:04.380
and focused on communications
that we know will work in this era."
00:28:04.380 --> 00:28:09.900
Another said: "Every time she falls back on identity
politics instead of actually answering questions,
00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:13.820
she reinforces the worst
stereotype about Democrats."
00:28:13.820 --> 00:28:20.220
In a PBS interview, she said: "Joe Biden
objectively had a successful presidential.
00:28:20.220 --> 00:28:25.340
Joe Biden objectively was a good human
who cared about the American people.
00:28:25.340 --> 00:28:30.860
That's what people would say. And yet he
was treated as if he was the worst thing ever."
00:28:30.860 --> 00:28:36.860
Uh, no, he was treated as someone who
had no hope of winning against Trump!
00:28:36.860 --> 00:28:40.460
And it wasn't some kind of
secret conspiracy or scandal.
00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:47.500
It was because his disastrous debate performance meant
that they could no longer hide his mental decline.
00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:51.420
Every time she was questioned on that, she
failed to come up with a coherent answer.
00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:57.180
When Chotiner asked her about that, she fell
back on the whole denial tactic, saying, quote:
00:28:57.180 --> 00:29:01.900
"I did not see anything that would cause me
concern. I had never seen him like that before.
00:29:01.900 --> 00:29:06.380
I'm not the only person who feels this.
I'm just the one speaking very loudly."
00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:09.500
Folks, we're just seeing
how dumb she is.
00:29:09.500 --> 00:29:13.424
The only reason she wasn't this embarrassed
back when she was press secretary
00:29:13.424 --> 00:29:17.980
was that she could cut off a question and
go to someone else whenever she wanted.
00:29:17.980 --> 00:29:22.940
Once she's not in control, she's
as pathetic as Kamala Harris.
00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:27.935
So all of that makes Karine Jean-Pierre
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:29:34.142 --> 00:29:39.260
Well, that wraps up this "the candidate
passes" edition of the Bogosity Podcast.
00:29:39.260 --> 00:29:44.060
I hope you enjoyed it; if you did, please go to
donate.bogosity.tv for several ways to support,
00:29:44.060 --> 00:29:47.100
and discord.bogosity.tv
to join the discussion.
00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:52.460
Subscribe at the Discord, Patreon, or
SubscribeStar and you can listen early and ad-free.
00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:56.460
Thank you for listening. Until next
time, here's a quote from Oscar Wilde:
00:29:56.460 --> 00:30:02.780
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
00:30:02.780 --> 00:30:07.180
The Bogosity Podcast is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:09.386
4.0 International license.