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(direct link to mp3 ) Show Notes ZOOKEEPER BATTLE . That is all. Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on Twitter: @acurrie @anthonymarco @shanebee @wiseman

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Propaganda film from North Korea nails Western Culture. Cana-duh Cana-duh (with a little help from the Brits and Yanks) totally bitchslaps the ITU . Copyfight TekSavvy & Voltage duke it out in Federal Court. Tired, Old Media From the obvious department, five artists who are making a killing off of piracy . Khaki Pants Instagram to monetize users’ photos . Or not . In related news, Currie totally pwns NatGeo . Going Mobile Topping the reddit this week, Ars Technica interviews a patent troll . What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been WIRED’s biggest tech fails of 2012. Pew-Pew Sued single mom goes certiorari on the RIAA. Wait, whut ? Ray Kurzweil joins Google , Google joins the singularity. Tired old media identifies Newtown shooter on Facebook. Incorrectly . TL;DR drones are fucking evil . Shout-outs Mark ST is back . Awww, yeahhhhh! Music Moses vs. Santa Claus; free download on iTunes (Linux users, hit us up for a rip). Dyscuss Some...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Yeah, apparently dogs can drive cars now … Cana-duh Copyright trolls come to Canada: Teksavvy’s update , Geist’s two cents , TorrentFreak’s coverage and a list of infringed titles via pastebin. Copyfight Cloudy-cloud-cloud with a chance of blank media tax . Going Mobile From the obvious department: Canadians none too happy about telecom douchebaggery. Exhibit A here ; Exhibit B here . AppleAppleAppleApple Apple to insource future production of some Macs — and they’re not alone . Freedom! What a shitstorm looks like in the wonderful world of GNU/Linux. Thanks For The Memory Sony ceases production of its last audio cassette-related products. Pew-Pew Tweets with links to become slightly shorter — everybody panic! O RLY? We like Google Fiber, says Netflix . Another use for Tor: commanding botnets . The difference between rapping about killing people and actually doing it. Shout-outs We made a 2012 best/worst l...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Privileged brats hurl $700 iPhones at Justin Bieber, with predictable results . Cana-duh A sad sign of the times from Teksavvy . What’s a torrenter to do? Try this , this or possibly this . Copyfight Darknet predicted by Microsoft engineers a decade ago . Priva-see Differing opinions on the ITU’s secret meetings in Dubai. Freedom! Bitcoin adoption is right on schedule . Going Mobile Ingress , the future of location tracking — er, “gaming”? Tired Old Media Radiohead donates program sound to fan-sourced concert film . Pew-Pew Barnes & Noble’s DRM fail . Are smartphones computers ? Almost. Whoops, there he is … Amidst opposition , Germany does right by our furry friends. Shout-outs Our producineer explains this tweet . Music Clayton Blizzard, “ New Strings On An Old Guitar “. Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Sta...

  (direct link to mp3 ) Preamble “Social Media”, via Onion Talks Episode 6 . Cana-duh BitTorrent trolls coming to Cana-duh. Copyfight Nine-year-old downloader came to save us all . Priva-see The beginning of the end for TSA’s Full-Body Scanners . Freedom! Arduino, Kickstarter, trademarks and lies — oh, my! AppleAppleApple How Apple became Big Brother. Y’all are just realizing this now…? Going Mobile “I don’t want to be part of your fucking ecosystem “. Pew-Pew Won’t someone think of the drone pilots ?!! The Onion pwns People’s Daily . As long as we’re tracking kids why don’t we track our wives, too ? Unfortunately-named Twitter baby still not trending . Shout-outs “Ask Currie” is a go ! Here’s my answer . Music Heet Mob with their free download, Industry . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in ...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble I wouldn’t have played the religious card first, but maybe that’s an easier sell… Cana-duh Because we don’t have one, here’s the top story from r/Canada this week. Priva-see Can we avoid an email surveillance state ? Yes we can ! The Neverending Story Remember that Texas teen who refused to wear an RFID tag? She’s been expelled . Meanwhile, in the EU… New regulations keep credit card companies, PayPal in check . Copyfight Hollywood controls the GOP too , apparently. Tangentially-related G+ rant here . Going Mobile So apparently it’s pronounced “ yolla “. Pew-Pew Taliban reveals entire PR list by using Cc instead Bcc . NHL lockout a boon for sex toy industry . Easily the reddit thread of the week. While we’re at it, here’s Currie’s favourite Tumblr . Shout-outs Anyone can leave a comment on the blog, you know. But until you do … Music Heet Seas with their free track, Stup...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Thanks to Google you can now yell at your TV . Cana-duh Bill C-11’s shortcomings, explained through ebooks . Copyfight Draconian downloading law takes effect in Japan, with predictable results . Going Mobile BlackBerry 10 launching next January . As expected, Nexus 4 sells out in minutes . China Watch Great firewall blocks Google . Tired Old Media Google has officially eaten the newspaper industry . Khaki Pants Firefox turns eight . Pew-Pew Antivirus pioneer wanted on murder charges ? South Korea’s toiled-themed theme park . GIF trumps YOLO for word of the year. Now here’s a bunch of GIFs as filler. Shout-outs Time-stamped show notes , you say? Music TdotBEAR rips up the radio reddit charts with his free track 8-bit Grenade . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on Tw...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Anth, Currie and Wiseman for past, what… six episodes ? Cana-duh Tronno Star hack defends paywall , with predictable results . Copyfight Sharing pr0n costs a lot more than making it , it seems. Priva-see Microsoft reveals killer app for Xbox Kinect. Going Mobile Little green robot turned 5 years old this week. 75% global market share = Google monopoly ? A quick primer on Android security, via this , this , this and this . Khaki Pants How YouTube is leaving amateurs behind . Edjumacayshun Dealing with digital distractions in the classroom. Meanwhile, in Africa… Ethiopian kids hack on Android with no prior instruction. And in Lagos, a litre of piss yields six hours of power . Pew-Pew UK judge to AppleAppleApple: “ Say sorry like you mean it !” reddit user captures voting machine irregularity in the US and A. Worst guerilla marketing campaign ever . And finally, some news worth paying for . Shout-outs Another reddit convert ...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble A delightful romp through the Canada-China Trade Deal , featuring Vancouver’s finest comedic actors. Spam our PM here if you like. Cana-duh Bell estimated to mark up their Internet service by 6,452% . Is it time to boycott paywalled sites ? Priva-see Online discourse should be regulated by government (please comment via Facebook). Don’t constrain law enforcement in the cyberworld , bro. When Toews says “ cyber systems ” does he mean “Internet”…? TL;DR Shopping Malls don’t qualify as public space . Relevant episode of The Agenda here . Going Mobile Much ado about Nexus . Scumbag Mobilicity’s bait and switch . Freedom!  Who needs Netflix with 10 petabytes of free culture? Pew-Pew New hockey channels (and another paywall). Lucas cedes control of Star Wars franchise to Mickey Mouse . Project Tyler is not a reality show . So much for journalism school … Shout-outs Zomg, identity theft !!1! Music Wo...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Rowan Atkinson talks free speech, via YouTube . Cana-duh Bell-Astral deal denied by CRTC . Cyber-security in Cana-duh: office hours only . Priva-see Office drones entitled to privacy on workplace computers, says Supreme Court . Freedom! Icelanders approve crowd-sourced constitution . Arduino Due is here! Khaki Pants Microsoft gambles on a touch-based future . Going Mobile WIND now 100% foreign-owned . Square is coming to Cana-duh; here’s what you need to know . AppleAppleApple (insert mandatory iPad Mini discussion here) Cupertino’s secrecy dashed by Canadian bloggers ? reddit FTW Amazon user gets account suspended , then restored . Free online education deemed illegal in Minnesota , then not so much . OpenMedia does an AMA . Pew-Pew Samsung plays to Korea’s strengths . Shout-outs You had Currie at “ questions about cell phones “… Music Here’s the first track from the new Brad Sucks album. Dyscuss Something to ...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble SNL in a rare moment of relevance, via Gary Miller . Cana-duh When Cana-duh cops can’t, Anonymous can . TL;DR Secret trade agreements = dubious copyright reform. Again . Copyfight Digitizing books fair use , says federal court in US and A. Priva-see Of Gawker reddit and creepshots . Khaki Pants  Wikileaks introduces paywall, with predictable results . Going Mobile WIND vs hot air in Whistler . P.S. If there’s a Mobilicity tower nearby you might want to consider this deal . Freedom! BC to offer free textbooks online . Save your forks for a generous helping of Raspberry Pi . Thanks For The Memory Who is was Paddy Roy Bates , anyway? Pew-Pew Another consultation ? Yay! Phone company to woman: “You owe us more than the GDP of France .” UK does the right thing, blocks extradition of l33t h@X0r . There’s DRM for 3D printers now. Shout-outs Music Jonathan Coulton re-records Code Monkey for Slashdot’s 15th Birthday. Dyscus...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Congressman Mike Rogers on Huawei, via 60 Minutes . Cana-duh TPP to be CanCon-free . Priva-see RFID chips? Attendance-based funding? Must be ‘mericuh . Khaki Pants You had me at Pinteresque … The Before Time, The Long Long Ago Remembering your first computer? Who cares ! Going Mobile More on Huawei’s struggles in Cana-duh. Fun facts on mobile from Tomi Ahonen’s new book . Freedom! The dramatic growth of Open Access . It’s the Humble eBook Bundle . Pew-Pew Mobile phones now cheap enough to be magazine inserts . For your empty life, the Facebook jacket . Suing Google for data retention ? Good luck with that. Chicago cab companies sue Uber . Shout-outs Currie is dying to know how this turned out … Music Ambient + Reggae = herr gau, with the free track always the sun . What was that Y again ? Arduino the Documentary is here  http://vimeo.com/18539129  . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc ...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble A rare Jesse Brown sighting on TVO’s The Agenda, via YouTube . Cana-duh All about Wentegate (with apologies to JJarmasz ). CRTC is changing , cronyism maybe not so much … Speaking of Journalism US Military classifies Assange, Wikileaks as “ Enemies of the State “. Copyfight Lessons learned from K-pop . Sound familiar? Pirate Bay Founder remains in custody without charges . Going Mobile The cost of charging up that iPhone (and other mobile devices). Mobile patent wars take an unexpected turn . Freedom! Finnish teachers, students create copyleft textbook (direct link here ). Largely irrelevant info for Linux n00bs; better links here and here . Pew-Pew Canadian Government caught “sponsoring” The Pirate Bay . Employers treat border guards like they treat us . Patent Absurdity reaches GoDaddy . Meanwhile in Europe, the road train . Shout-outs Commenter Mark ST wants more e-waste (or discussion thereof). Music Elliott BR...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble More iPhone 5 madness, via YouTube . Cana-duh RIM set to report zero subscriber growth for the first time… ever. Wireless prices set to rise for the first time in six years . Khaki Pants MintChip Challenge conveniently ignores other, slightly more popular digital currency. reddit co-founder faces 13 felony charges . Going Mobile Ethical smartphone? No such thing . And on the subject of disrespecting Mother Earth … AppleAppleApple Why Apple Maps failed . iPhone 5 jailbroken . Thanks For The Memory RIP Sam Sniderman . Pew-Pew Sooo, Canadian teens are happy because of Facebook , then? Stay classy, Owen Sound Sun Times … Zomg, web leakage !!1! Where? We won’t say… Arab world in turmoil, Foreign Affairs Minister on it . Shout-outs Yard work , eh? Better stay away from sharp garden tools… Music How much does RIM love BlackBerry devs? This much . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel a...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble “ Thursday, WHY?!! “ Cana-duh Worst. Textbook. Ever . More Copyfight HADOPI claims its first victim . The Pirate Bay turns 9 . Khaki Pants Has Twitter jumped the shark ? Has the PC jumped the shark too ?! Freedom! Linux finally gets a good NLE . Why every one of us should learn a little code . China Watch Acer, Alibaba, Aliyun and Google… Oh, my ! Going Mobile Samsung: Power, corruption and lies . Pew-Pew Cana-duh’s big three telcos fingered in premium SMS scam . Keek is still around, huh? As if douchebag earrings weren’t bad enough … An alternative history for the RIAA . Shout-outs Twitter, we have not forsaken thee . Yarrr. Music From the  Grey Album here’s “99 Problems”. Why? This is why . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on...

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble An audio clip from “ Innocence of Muslims “.  Yup, we went there! Cana-duh Why our diplomats left Iran . And just in time , it seems… Priva-see Wikipedia stands up to nanny state . WhatsApp puts users at risk . AppleAppleApple iPhone 5 . Woo? And here’s how they’re made . China Watch A new threat to Apple and Google. What’s the deal with China’s bloggers ? Tablet Talk Tablets are changing tech, whether you own one or not . Thanks For The Memory RIP Bill Moggridge . Pew-Pew Damn, Nexus 7 banned in China . Apple suing posh supermarket — sorry, Polish . Cana-duh has lowest Internet caps in “ all of Netflix world “. Canadian Mint caught nickel-and-diming indie music-type person. Shout-outs Holy shit, a website comment ! I know this is crazy but  vote for us , maybe? Music My Name Is Fantastik , with their free track “ Pumpkins ! “ Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come han...

(direct link to mp3 / ogg ) Preamble Just an à propos pop culture movie reference . Cana-duh Ottawa has a Git repo ? Priva-see Top torrent sites massively monitored . AntiSec releases a million iOS IDs; FBI has 11 million more . Acronym Watch We preach about the perils of TPP for anyone just tuning in. Freedom! We chat with Steve Czajka and Dave Lepek about GIMP Magazine . Also, how Microsoft was forced to “open” Office ( gedit ?) Goin’ Mobile Nokia’s “PureView”, from 41 megapixels to 8 . Samsung threatens to strand bloggers at IFA. Pew-Pew Firefox OS app store leaks . Troma dumps 150 films onto YouTube. California says yes to autonomous cars . New Zealand has open source beer ? Shout-outs Everybody follow Mike Gifford . Why? This is why . Music Tweet from Jamendo yields Serphonic . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here ...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble History in the making, as Anth and Mike kick-off Episode #1 . Full Dysclosure (!!!) Apple wins big against Samsung — or does it ? Techdirt turned 15 this week. Dr. Geist is running for a spot on the CIRA board . Wait, border agents can torture us now …? What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been A look back at some of our favourite moments, including… Currie’s cat takes the mic . A historic meetup at Podcamp Toronto . Mike makes the unfortunate choice to mention the speakers’ room . You asked for it, Ontario Liberal Party… Five live from PAB 2011 . Mike and Shane go at it over Mike Daisey’s one-man show . Pew Pew! Oh, HELL no … The future of App.net, today ! I see what you did there . Only in Japan: The poo-powered motorcycle . Shout-outs A special thanks to the redditors who gave us direction on this anniversary podcast. Music 20lb Sounds, with their pay-what-you-want track, Change . Dyscuss Something to s...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Julian Assange calls for the release of Bradley Manning , via YouTube . Might as well chat about this for a bit… Cana-duh Politically correct? Racist? Why not both ? Jesse Brown proves it yet again: we’re a backwater . Priva-see Rise of the license plate readers . Cana-duh version here . Copyfight How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars . Khaki Pants Hope y’all like Tweetdeck … Goin’ Mobile In the absence of a verdict in Apple v. Samsung , we’ll give you ours. P.S. Shit just got real for Apple . Ego Stroke How podcasting hijacked radio . Pew-Pew! Pussy Riot’s Canadian connection . Android powers Nikon now — or at least one of ’em . FSF gets into the logo biz . Worst social media gig ever . Shout-outs Our humble subreddit, now thirty members strong . Here’s a little token of Mr. Currie’s appreciation. Music From Jamendo, This Public Life with their free track bombs away . Dyscuss Someth...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble An excerpt from Kirby Ferguson’s “ Embrace the remix ” TED Talk. Cana-duh Open WiFi hotspot equals dead end on the hunt for Pierre Poutine. Survey of BitTorrent throttling — how did Cana-duh fare ? Copyfight Surfthechannel… in prison . Google updates search juju to nix “pirate sites” (except YouTube ). Priva-see Creepy spying system revealed by Wikileaks, followed by DDoS . I know what you downloaded on BitTorrent this summer. The Before Time, The Long Long Ago Ars Technica tracks market share over 35 years of personal computing. An unexpected ass-kicking . Goin’ Mobile Tomi Ahonen describes the forthcoming “ mobile moment “. The NeverEnding Story How is this even a doomsday device? Assange finds safe haven in Ecuador . Google’s autonomous cars log 300K accident-free miles . Policing for local sock puppets ftw! Shout-outs Feedback on our last podcast from our man on the Hill . Have yo...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Mission Control reacts to Curiosity’s landing on Mars, via YouTube . Copyfight Dark days for Demonoid . New French government not impressed by Hadopi . MPAA uses “ surrogates “…? Priva-see How to protect yourself in the cloud . IP Nightly (too obscure?) Shit’s about to get real over Cana-duh’s postal codes . Patent wars: the silly and the sleaze . We’re The UN, Bitch! Should The United Nations control our Internets ? Goin’ Mobile Fear and loathing… of Huawei . Two takes on the Chatr debacle. Thanks For The Memory The TRS-80 turns 35 . Pew-Pew! Mobile phones are ruining stand-up comedy (except that they’re not)! When WiFi hotspots go rogue . Creative Commons makes choosing copyleft easier . A million new torrents from the Internet Archive . Shout-outs Freedom beards… fight ! Have you joined r/dyscultured yet? Music The Wavers with their free track, Surf-o-nauta . Dyscuss Something to say...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble NBC on Tim Berners-Lee, via Ethan Klapper’s Tumblr . Goin’ For Gold Twitter account suspended in US&A. Twitter user arrested in UK. Everyone at the games ask to tweet only when absolutely necessary . Tired old broadcaster posts results of race 12 hours before airing it . Blast Into Books Won’t someone think of the professional writers ?!! Here’s someone who had a book deal, then self-published anyway . Copyfight Music cartel uses Pirate Bay booty to fund future lawsuits . The more you know: Most file-sharing happens offline . Priva-see Cute chat site can save lives, overthrow governments. Goin’ Mobile Apple and Microsoft’s plan to destroy Android . New “for life” promos on the way from upstart carriers. It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews Great idea , will never happen. Zomg, Cana-duh’s Senate is hiding information about the Senate ! A stay of execution for the penny . Kopimism kovered in ...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Excerpt from a TED Talk by Malte Spitz of the German Green Party. Blowback Going to the movies just got a whole lot worse . Studios nix info on tix — out of respect ? Prix. As conspiracy theories go, this one’s rather interesting . Cana-duh Elections Canada caught trying to game the Supreme Court. Robocalls lawsuit moving forward . Class action suit against Elections Ontario . So is it time for liquid democracy yet? Khaki Pants Who owns your tweets ? Worldwide study on the cost of connectivity . LOL @Cana-duh. Goin’ Mobile More from Malte Spitz . So that’s why hotspots will be banned at the Olympics… It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews Something about a la carte cable channels . OHAI music industry’s global anti-piracy strategy . Judge green-lights getting nekkid to protest the TSA . McDonald’s denies assault on cyborg , with no evidence to support it. Yeah, we totally scooped The Tronno Star . Shout-out...

( direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Dan Bull on the shenanigans of Lord Finesse, via this YouTube vid . Cana-duh A great day for Canadian copyfighters. So why is this uni student so confused ? Khaki Pants Redditor turns to Twitter for amazing reconstruction of tragic shooting. Copyfight What happened, Avaaz ? You used to be cool. P.S. sign the damn petition . AppleAppleApple How embarrassing … How even more embarrassing … Goin’ Mobile Canadian Business Magazine not bullish on RIM’s survival . So much for the power of conversation . Tired Old Media This week’s example of The Streisand Effect . The Fuck…? Human cyborg physically assaulted by the staff of a Parisian McDonald’s . It’s Not News, It’s Pew-Pews Dotcom judge steps down . Qantas ditches BlackBerry for iPhone. Someone found a hardware partner… Jolla ! Here comes Facebook voter registration . Shout-outs A summer challenge from Currie. And thanks to our retweeters . (soon ...