Hello and welcome to the Lifehacker podcast for December 13th.

We'll be airing special episodes for the remainder of the year.

Today's episode focuses on one recent news story, the takedown of Usenet Indexers.

I'll be joined by Derek Bambauer, an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona,

to discuss the legal impact and future implications.

So, without further ado, let's get started. Hey everybody, Adam Dachis here.

I am alone today for the time being.

We'll be talking to Derek Bamauer later to discuss all the crazy stuff happening with

the Usenet.

But there are a few orders of business to go through.

First of all,

we originally intended to just do an episode that was about five minutes long to say, hey,

we're going to be gone in December. Witson and I are traveling to New York this week. We're

actually already there. I'm recording this before I go. And if you want to hang out with us,

if you're in New York, we're going to be going to Barcade in Brooklyn at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

So look it up. You'll see posts on Lifehacker about that meetup.

Come join us, have a few drinks, play some Donkey Kong.

For everybody else who's just listening here, we are going to be doing this special

episode today. We'll have another special episode on the 20th that you might want to know about

because we'll be doing it live. We're going to get the entire Lifehacker staff together or as

much of everybody as we can get and we're going to be answering questions live on a Google

Hangouts. So you can actually come in. We don't know exactly how it's going to work yet or how

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