Another Weiner Scandal, Opting in to Watch Porn, and More

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🗓️ 28 June 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	This week, pirates, horn, and the ungovernable internet.
0:05.0	This woman did decide to leak sex chats to a website called The Dirty.
0:10.0	It was only a matter of minutes before some other 23-year-old kid could piece this information together.
0:16.0	When legal alternatives to illegal downloading turned up, the rate of piracy plummeted, in some cases, by 90%.
0:25.6	I could try and sort of put up a fight and stop the pirate translation, but nobody would read the book in Russian.
0:30.6	And I thought that if the translation was going to be good, I might need to intervene.
0:35.6	He sent pieces of styrofoam flying all over the courtroom,
0:38.3	and he explained the exploding bit of styrofoam
0:41.3	was a representation of a CD sort of being atomized into individual's songs.
0:47.3	You're going to have to end up having a discussion with your spouse or your partner
0:51.3	about your porn news, which you may or may not wish to have.
0:54.9	There's more coming up after this.
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1:14.8	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
1:19.1	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:20.2	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:21.8	Oh, what news this week.
1:23.8	Consider Wednesday.
1:25.2	A presidential speech on economic inequality, a royal baby name, a New York City mayoral hopeful's digital peccadillos.
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