Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.
Originally aired 07.22.2011
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Cory Doctorow, Ryan Block, Robert Heron, and Gina Trapani
New Zealand copyright blackout, the child porn ruse, DTV, Pirate Bay trial, and more.
* New Zealand copyright blackout.
* Using the idea of "keeping the Internet free of child pornography" as a ruse for censorship.
* The Digital TV conversion
* Watching TV online
* Pirate Bay trial
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