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Season 1

  • S01E200 Phantom of the Brickhouse

    • March 1, 2013
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    Our 200th episode! Tech law and policy issues, time travel, and more.

  • S01E201 My Little Drony

    • March 8, 2013
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    Drones, copyright reform, Wiki leaks, and more

  • S01E202 Yo Quiero Taco Drone

    • March 15, 2013
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    Legislative and policy issues, DARPA sharing government spectrum, CFAA and DMCA reform, and more.

  • S01E203 Power Hour Pounding

    • March 22, 2013
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    Porn and drinking, Ali Spagnola's Power Hour lawsuit, and more.

  • S01E204 Hot Mess

    • March 29, 2013
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    Getting fired, getting hacked, getting sentenced, getting a national security letter, and more.

  • S01E205 Trains, Transporters, and Wonkavision

    • April 5, 2013
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    ReDigi, Aereo, drones, naughty ads about your mum, and more.

  • S01E206 One Hat to Sue Them All

    • April 12, 2013
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    TV and movie content licensing, CISPA vote, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.

  • S01E207 Bad Robots

    • April 19, 2013
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    Surveillance, Facial Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and more.

  • S01E208 The Devil Wears Prenda

    • April 26, 2013
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    Copyright reform, does Fox know who it's messing with, trademarks, the Boston bombing and social media, and more.

  • S01E209 Cat Meme Fever

    • May 3, 2013
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    Bitcoin, PadMapper, Instagram can tag you now, and more.

  • S01E210 Into the Prenda Darkness

    • May 10, 2013
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    Prenda, Paramount product placement, technology legislation, and more.

  • S01E211 Blame it on the Beans

    • May 17, 2013
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    Soybeans and their patentability, 3D printing and making your own Glass in China, privacy, and more.

  • S01E212 Let's Play Ad Revenue Away

    • May 24, 2013
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    Legal implications of Let's Play videos, rights of publicity, copyright reform, and more,

  • S01E213 Fun Like Death Valley

    • May 31, 2013
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    DRM and DRM standards, the XBOX One, Chinese hackers, patent reform, and more.

  • S01E214 Back Doors and Liberation Fronts

    • June 7, 2013
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    NSA collecting phone records, NSA surveillance order, EFF reacts to NSA, forced back door legislations, Google Glass, and more.

  • S01E215 The Least Untruthful Show Ever

    • June 14, 2013
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    PRISM, Verizon, NSA, Edward Snowden, kid privacy issues, and more.

  • S01E216 Birthday Cake and Birthday Suits

    • June 21, 2013
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    Britain filtering the web, France softening three strikes, Sweden wants you to ask permission, and more.

  • S01E217 Apples, Oranges, Kumquats and Guinea pigs

    • June 28, 2013
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    Pink Floyd vs Pandora, hip-hop and the future of video sharing, Microsoft bows to gamer outrage over Xbox One restrictions, and more!

  • S01E218 Hack All the Things

    • July 5, 2013
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    The royalty structure of Internet radio, Fair Use, keeping content available to non-infringing regions, and more!

  • S01E219 Of Chalk and Anarchy

    • July 12, 2013
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    Two professors join us to talk about DMCA takedowns, EULA shakedowns, Lego 3D printers, and more.

  • S01E220 The Resounding Meh

    • July 19, 2013
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    Serious and silly law suits, Comic-Con, the NSA, and more.

  • S01E221 We're #9! We're #9!

    • July 26, 2013
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    What's going on in D.C., wireline issues, Public Knowledge, internet filtering in the UK, and more!

  • S01E222 Confust it All

    • August 2, 2013
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    Stephen Kaplitt talks about his letter to West Orange, New Jersey, the Jobs Act, and more.

  • S01E223 Comply or Die

    • August 16, 2013
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    When resistance to government requests is futile, why is Breaking Bad still torrented, and more.

  • S01E224 Better Call Saul

    • August 23, 2013
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    Groklaw unGroks, Al Jazeera starts blocking videos on YouTube, new details show broader NSA surveillance reach, and more.

  • S01E225 Vanna's Robot

    • August 30, 2013
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    TV's and law degrees, texter liability, criminalizing revenge porn, and more.

  • S01E226 Injunction Junction

    • September 6, 2013
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    Are small out sourced antennae the legal equivalent of big rooftop mounted antennae, should lawyers drink more, and more.

  • S01E227 Twitter Breaks out the Bubbly

    • September 13, 2013
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    Google's Wi-Spy law suit moves forward, fingerprints on your iPhone, champagne jam, and more.

  • S01E228 Operatic Poodles and Flying Pigs

    • September 20, 2013
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    Hollywood blames Google again, cell phone unlocking, NSA cracking net encryption, and more.

  • S01E229 Trolling, Trolling... Trollhide

    • September 27, 2013
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    Special guest Lee Cheng from Newegg and Jonathan Bailey, patient trolls, copyright in curriculum, and more.

  • S01E230 The 230 Birdie

    • October 4, 2013
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    Creative challenges to NSA surveillance, taking Chubby Checkers to the islands, the proposed federal shield law getting better, and more.

  • S01E231 Taking up Knitting

    • October 11, 2013
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    The Trans-Pacific Partnership, digital copyright, global policy on intellectual property law, and more.

  • S01E232 The Caramel Commission

    • October 18, 2013
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    Author issues, digital publishing, privacy, and more.

  • S01E233 Pallante Funkadelic

    • October 25, 2013
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    SpongeBob on your gravestone, net neutrality, lawsuits pertaining to open internet rules, copyright reform, and more.

  • S01E234 Tech policy meets traffic court

    • November 1, 2013
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    Google Glass and cars, cars and liability, liability and law machines, pending legislations, and more.

  • S01E235 Model Clientele

    • November 8, 2013
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    Upcoming pending legislations, possible FISA improvement, stock photography, and more!

  • S01E236 Sounds European

    • November 15, 2013
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    The TPP leak content and journalistic ramifications, when can journalists be held criminally liable for their content, a Google book search victory, and more.

  • S01E237 Networks of Steel

    • November 22, 2013
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    Madonna, Superman, JFK, C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and more.

  • S01E344 TlhIngan Konami Ngoq DMCA

    • May 6, 2016
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    Paramount v. Axanar and a legal brief written in Klingon, Political Campaigns and music licensing, Lenz v. Universal and discouraging abuse of the DMCA takedown process, copyright clash over cheerleading uniforms and more! Photo credit: Falashad.

  • S01E345 Fax It To Twitter

    • May 13, 2016
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    Title III Equity Crowdfunding, Avengers' law and policy, Twitter's trademark policy, Uniform Username Dispute Resolution Policy (UUDRP), data driven startups, why you should get plants and more! Photo credit: Abhisek Sarda

  • S01E346 Red Flagged as Sith

    • May 20, 2016
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    USPTO, The Slants, Redskins, and trademarking offensive names, revenge porn creep Kevin Bollaert's appeal, Redigi, digital files and the First Sale doctrine, the 'Defend Trade Secrets Act', the Email Privacy Act, who's Satoshi? And more! Photo Credit: Eduardo de São Paulo

  • S01E347 There's a Tribble in My Tent

    • May 27, 2016
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    Google's use of Oracle's APIs is fair use, what not to wear at Comic-Con, why the Slants case is going to be so interesting before the Supreme Court, Axanar to fly again, and more! Photo Credit: Andrew McCluskey

  • S01E348 Dibs on James Brown

    • June 3, 2016
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    Journalist gets jailtime for L.A. Times breach, Justin Bieber and Skrillex sued over "Sorry", "Drumpf" trademark application is refused by USPTO, will a victory for Google kill the GPL? And more!

  • S01E349 Fire on All the Things

    • June 10, 2016
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    3D scanning and the lack of copyright, Sweden bans M&M's logo in trademark dispute, Global Archery's trademark suit against LARPing.org gets thrown out of court, Gawker files for bankruptcy after Hulk Hogan suit, and more!

  • S01E350 Let Loose the Droids of War!

    • June 17, 2016
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    Automated Weapons Systems and accountability, Hive mind AI, will AI kill switches work? FCC's open internet rules upheld by D.C. Circuit, landlords can scan your Facebook to see if you can pay rent and more! Photo Credit: Steve Jurvetson

  • S01E351 Stairway To Court

    • July 8, 2016
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    A jury finds that Led Zeppelin did not copy "Stairway to Heaven", Hillary Clinton's Initiative on Technology & Innovation, the music industry asks Congress to amend the DMCA, and more! Photo credit: Gabriel Balderas