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Disney Got Fans Arrested Over a Club for Penguins?

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Three people involved with Club Penguin Rewritten, a fan-made remake of a popular Disney game, were arrested last week by the City of London police because they were infringing on Disney’s copyright. On the show today, Rachelle and Allegra talk about the history of Club Penguin, growing up on browser games, and what this news could mean for other fan-created remakes of now-defunct games. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.5

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Allegra Frank, sitting in for Madison Malone Kircher,

0:51.5

and you're listening to I see why am I.

0:54.8

In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

1:00.6

And we are here, as you can tell, with Allegra, our editor, hello Allegra.

1:01.8

Thanks for joining me.

1:03.6

Hi, thanks for having me.

1:09.1

I feel like I'm like very peppy and ready to go, which is not like me. But I guess I'm just so excited to talk to you today, Rachel.

1:13.3

Wow.

1:13.9

I mean, you should be excited to talk to me all the time,

1:17.2

but I'm glad that you're finally rising to the occasion of speaking with me.

1:25.8

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1:34.1

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1:42.8

Rachel Weaver and Nate Bird, two of the Black Menaces at BYU.

1:46.6

If you didn't listen to the episode, shame on you.

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