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For January 16th, 2020, 6, my name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. Her visa has been renewed. Tassie Burns had, Ashley Burns. Well, for now, anyway. Yeah, well, you're in a very select group of people who can get their visa. But, yeah, that clip today was from Animaniacs. Did you watch Animaniacs? You're a kid of the 90s, right? I didn't watch Animaniacs. I was aware of Animaniacs. I think my sister watched Animaniacs. I was aware of it, but I was mostly that song I knew. Even if you didn't watch Animaniacs, you knew that song. There's two things I'm kind of curious about, like playing that clip today.

I was thinking about that clip for a very specific reason, but just playing three seconds of it,

three seconds. That's how long that clip is. I am wondering if this now episode, which we don't

monetize, will get claimed, right? Because of

three seconds. And if that happens, it just shows that system, which I feel serves a very

important function in intellectual property. It will also demonstrate just how broken that system is.

Yeah, look, I've floated a solution in the past and I'm standing by it, which is that that's a three-second clip, right? Let's say this is a 20-minute podcast. Let's take whatever percentage three seconds is, and when they claim it, they get that percentage of our revenue of zero. Right, right. Well, I can already see a way to subvert that system that you just came up with,

which is I would just play Madonna song right up front and then have an hour and a half of

nothing after that. So people can come and listen to the Madonna song and then, right? The whole thing.

Yeah, okay, fair enough. Yeah. And I always use Madonna for some reason when it comes. She's like my

baseline for piracy because do you remember that Madonna

released a pirated version of one of her own songs during like the height of like Napster

panic? No, she did. That's kind of interesting. Well, she released a version of it and you would

listen like the first 30 seconds and then suddenly just cut to Madonna talking where she says,

what the fuck do you think you're doing? And Ashley, this might shock you. Yeah, she got a lot of backlash for that. What? She got backlash from the people that were pirating her stuff. From the people that were pirating her stuff. For being like, why are you pirating my stuff? No, that, uh, it reminds me, though, uh, did you ever hear the story about Game Dev Tycoon?

I think that was the game where they actually, they seeded a version of the game on, like, the network sharing sites.

But in that version of the game, whenever you would make a game, the pirates, like the piracy problem would become so severe

that you couldn't make money on the game and you had to close down. Right. Every game that

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