TWiT 1039: Mmmm Ham Shack - YouTube Piracy on the Rise
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 165 minutes
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Summary
- SCOTUS Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
- Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May
- SCOTUS granting cert to Cox v. Sony
- Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright case
- Kadrey v. Meta AI copyright case
- Microsoft layoffs hit 9,000 employees in new wave of cuts
- Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban
- Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams
- Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh | TechCrunch
- Elon Musk's Starlink Adds $750 Congestion Charge
- Mystery recall of iPhone engineers may be Chinese interference in Apple's plans
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Cathy Gellis and Nicholas De Leon
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech. Kathy Gellis, my attorney is here. She's actually a Supreme Court expert. |
| 0:07.0 | Also, from Consumer Reports, Nicholas DeLeon, we will talk about a couple of very important Supreme Court decisions at the very last minute that will affect the Internet. |
| 0:16.0 | We'll also talk about the strange case of the Indian engineer who took more than 40 jobs in Silicon Valley at the same time. |
| 0:26.2 | And why that $1 billion fine against Cox could cost you your internet access. |
| 0:32.4 | All that more coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:37.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:41.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:49.2 | This is Twit. |
| 0:50.8 | This week at Tech, episode 139, recorded Sunday Sunday July 6th 2025 hmm ham shack it's time for |
| 1:02.3 | twit this week in tech the show we cover the week's tech news and what a week it has been |
| 1:06.8 | in the words of john oliver i should be going like this. What a week it's been. |
| 1:11.4 | We say hello to Kathy Gellis from TechDirt, long time contributor. |
| 1:16.6 | It looks like she's sitting in the dark, |
| 1:18.3 | but it's because it's such a beautiful day on the bay. |
| 1:20.6 | The sun is shining in. |
| 1:22.0 | Hi, Kathy. |
| 1:22.9 | Hello. |
| 1:24.1 | You know what? |
| 1:24.9 | You're looking great. |
| 1:25.8 | Your health is good, I think. |
| 1:29.6 | Maybe not. Uh-oh. Yeah. |
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