JCC Patent Troll Sues Podcasters; Could End Podcasting

I used to get the Economist and the Freakonomics guys ones and stuff, but the Economist ones didn't have enough depth and the freakonomics one would work better as a written piece

 

Because I don't listen to music. Instead, I listen to podcasts constantly. That's the cool thing about audio - you can listen to it while you do other things. Anyhow, my podcast roll is:

Ancient Warfare Magazine
Audition
AutoPilot
Bible Study Podcasts
Big Pop Fun with Tom Wilson
BondCast
Book
The Book Was Better
BTR Advice Line with Roy Masters
The Catholic Laboratory
The China History Podcast
Clone Wars Roundtable
Coast to Coast AM Podcast
The CultCast
Dallas AfterBuzz TV
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
The Dave Glover Show
The dealnews podcast
Derb Radio
EconTalk
English News from NHK
Film Sack
FT Arts
Game of Thrones AfterBuzz TV
Geek Tragedy
History Extra
The History Network
The History of Rome
A History of Hannibal
How Did This Get Made?
Howie Carr
iFive for the iPhone
iPadre Catholic Podcast
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101
Learn Russian with RussianPod 101
Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy
MacOS Ken
MacBreak Weekly
MacCast
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
The Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast
No Agenda
Once Upon A Time Fan Podcast
The P.W.A. Show
Quiver: The Green Arrow Podcast
The Rod Pod
The Rogue Arrow Podcast
The SaintCast
The SciFi Party Line Podcast
Smart Wrestling Fan
Solo Sound: We Talk Clones
The Spirit Blade Underground Podcast
SQPN: Catholic Insider
SQPN: Secrets of Once Upon A Time
SQPN: The Break with Father Roderick
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Talkin' Toons with Rob Paulsen
Tech News Today
This Week In Tech
Today in iOS
The Tolkien Professor
Weekly ForceCast
Word on Fire Sermon Podcast
Yeah, It's That Bad
99% Invisible

Actually, looks like I miscounted - that's only 65.

 

Well, yeah, sort of. I understand, in that I prefer audio stories to music myself, but I still don't see how this is clicking. Listening to people talking on a podcast requires attention, whereas music really doesn't. So while I can sit in traffic and listen to a podcast, I don't see how one could, say, simultaneously write a paper and listen to a podcast.

 

When I am at work and doing something that doesn't require my auditory attention I love to throw on a podcast while I work.

 

me too (i do tv and youtube lectures more often tho) but 65? im assuming most of those are weeklyish? i wish i had that much mindless task time. what did you go to grad school for? because id like to earn a degree AND catch up on my television

 

I don't listen to podcasts anymore. Am I missing out?

 

Yes. There's a lot of chaff, and you'll listen to, and give up on, a bunch of bad ones along with finding some good ones, but there's some great stuff out there.

I rarely watch television, either. TCW, Young Justice, Once Upon A Time, Arrow, and, depending on the season, Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, or Dallas. When they bring back Legend of Korra, and if they bring back Thundercats, I'll watch those, too. So that's five or six hours of currently-running a week, which I usually do all in one day, along with a couple of anime episodes and maybe an episode of a classic like UFO, Buck Rogers, Kolchak, or The Greatest American Hero.

 

Two Christian podcasts? Trying to bombard the niggling double into suspicion with volume?

Is Reasonable Doubts still any good? They started out awesome but petered off when they covered all the topics they could make interesting.

 

uuhhhhh

 

I guess the fact that I listen to six Apple-related podcasts is because I'm trying to bombard the aspiring Dell fan within me into suspicion with volume.

You... disapprove of my television choices?

 

I think you missed the point....

Their vs. They're


EDIT -- Also, naturally they are going to keep copyright over Mickey and Co.

It allows them to get their lawyers whenever someone does something like this:

 

Ah, yes, doubtless that's what Hamas really fears - a lawsuit from Disney's legal team.

 

It's probably because you watch a crap load of TV from the looks of it.

 

Actually...yes. Believe it or not, after the big brou-ha-ha and condemnation from both Disney CEO Bob Iger and Diane Disney Miller, the producers of the show responded by obliging them and taking Clone-Mickey off the air....in the most asinine way possible....

Yep. He was kidnapped and martyred at the hands of vengeful Jews.


EDIT -- The best part is....parody is still protected from copyright claims.
So South Park is still in the clear.

 

The average American watches 34 hours of TV a week - nearly as much as a full-time job. 34 ÷ 7 = 4.8... I think we can safely round that up to 5. I regularly watch 5-6 hours of currently-running shows a week (Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and Dallas aren't full-season shows and don't all run concurrently, so usually I'm watching only one or two of them in any given week). So that means I watch a maybe an hour more of currently-running TV in a week than the average American watches in a day. Count in the anime and classics, and at most I'm still watching less in seven days than the average American watches in two.

And remember, I watch all that in one day (typically Monday, which my roommate and I both have off, and which fits nicely with the fact that most of what we watch are shows that run on the weekend). So I'm TV-free six days a week.

OK, but that was still because Iger and Miller asked them to and they agreed, not because they sued them under copyright law and forced them to.