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Hollywood Superagent Michael Ovitz’s New AI Anti-Piracy Venture, Plus Major AWS Outage Hits Apps 10/20/25

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Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As viral AI models like Openai’s Sora 2 raise risks around Hollywood and copyright infringement, new tools like the anti-piracy startup SoundPatrol are emerging to protect intellectual property rights. Plus, AWS is still struggling to resolve its major outage after a six hour disruption this morning looked like it had been mitigated.

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0:00.0

As viral AI models like OpenAI, SORA 2 raise these existential risks about Hollywood's

0:08.0

copyrighted material, new tools are emerging to protect IP rights.

0:12.0

For today's tech, Julia Borsden joins us with the co-founders of anti-piracy startup Sound Patrol,

0:17.0

one of whom has a long history in Hollywood.

0:20.0

Hey, Julia. Hey, Carl, that's right, legendary Hollywood super has a long history in Hollywood. Hey, Julia.

0:26.5

Hey, Carl, that's right. Legendary Hollywood Super Agent and co-founder of CA, Michael Ovitz.

0:33.3

Also a longtime tech investor. He co-founded anti-piracy company's Sound Patrol with AI researcher Walter DeBrower. The company uses neural fingerprinting to make IP identifiable, even if it's distorted

0:39.8

or manipulated by AI recently announcing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music.

0:45.5

Thank you both for joining us today. Michael, let's start with you with your long history in

0:50.5

Hollywood. You have also invested in tech. Why did you decide to co-found and chair this new

0:57.3

anti-piracy company? Thanks, Julia. And thank you to you and Carl for having us. I was referred

1:05.0

by a fellow professor of Walter at Stanford to have a conversation with him about some technology

1:15.0

he had, and it was not in an area that I was particularly interested in, which was NFTs, but

1:21.8

we had the discussion. And about 15 minutes into the call, just a light bulb went off in my head and I said,

1:30.3

can your neural fingerprinting work with IP like songs or video or live sporting events?

1:39.3

And Walter's answer was it's elementary.

1:42.3

And I said, well, we're in a new business.

1:45.0

And we started it up very quickly.

1:48.6

Went to see Sir Lucian Grange, who runs Universal.

1:53.2

I would say five minutes into the presentation.

1:56.4

He said, I'm in.

1:57.8

He said, obviously, it needs to be diligence,

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