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Speaker 1: and go your hartshitally D. I'm Carrison. Welcome to this

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Speaker 1: tech centric episode. This is very exciting with me, is

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Speaker 1: Chris to help us discuss libraries and piracy or permanently

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Speaker 1: pirate brained and and paywalls and all this all this

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Speaker 1: win practices, these like free models shuch then like which

429
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Speaker 1: lead into a subscription service based model. Um have did

430
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Speaker 1: da have definitely started in online gaming, and it's yeah,

431
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: it's it's really frustrating because as we'll talk about here

432
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Speaker 1: in a bit, like the Sega model is like better,

433
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Speaker 1: Like it turns out when you encourage your fans to

434
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Speaker 1: play around with the stuff, it only helps your property.

435
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: Like that's the reason why they there's still Sonic March

436
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: available now and it's not like a dead franchise. It's

437
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 1: because they like because they allowed that to happen. So

438
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Speaker 1: it's actually really cool when we're allowed to access free

439
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,479
Speaker 1: information and play with it how we want to instead

440
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: of like having this weird strict copyright like rules for

441
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Speaker 1: not allowing certain usage of certain things. Like it's it's

442
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not great when you're restricting like emulation,

443
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: restricting fan games, restricting the access to information. It's not.

444
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Speaker 1: It's not it's it's not. It's not fun. But yeah,

445
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: this is kind of it's kind of place into why

446
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 1: I am very skeptical of digital media, which is why

447
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: I start started collecting Blue Rays and all of all

448
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: the things I like, because I bottomed things that Amazon

449
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: Prime which are now no longer available on Amazon Prime,

450
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: and that sucks, so like why do that instead just

451
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Speaker 1: buy your physical copy? Yeah, well, the thing is like

452
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Speaker 1: it didn't and it's so true to some extent, like

453
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Speaker 1: if if you buy physical copies, like it didn't used

454
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Speaker 1: to be like this, like Blue Rays used to it

455
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: to some extent, still dubious most times. Yeah, but like

456
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Speaker 1: like if you buy the physical copy of it, they

457
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Speaker 1: will give you weight code that lets you use the

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00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: online version a digital download code. Yeah. Yeah, and you

459
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Speaker 1: know that's a much better way of the thing working

460
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Speaker 1: than uh, instead of you know, you don't buying it,

461
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Speaker 1: you don't have the physical product and also they can

462
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Speaker 1: take it away from you. Yeah, it's I'll circle back

463
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Speaker 1: to this idea towards the end, but I kind of

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Speaker 1: want to. I want I want to a little bit

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Speaker 1: segue to like the idea of the same type of

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Speaker 1: like paywalling, subscription service issues, and like the restriction of

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Speaker 1: information regarding online news. So, you know, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people, whether they be like reporters, editors, authors, or

469
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Speaker 1: just to annoy people online. Um, but there's a decent

470
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Speaker 1: collection of people that perpetuate the notion that readers or

471
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Speaker 1: consumers are actually responsible for the dire straits of the

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Speaker 1: media industry. But the problem with journalism and many other

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Speaker 1: media you know industries. But the problem isn't that people

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Speaker 1: aren't paying for news. The problem is that newspapers and

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Speaker 1: outlets are being decimated and dismantled by hedge funds, capital

476
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Speaker 1: investment firms, venture capitalists, and tech companies in search of profit. Um.

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Speaker 1: You can look at how Facebook tricked a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of companies and just switching over to video content, and

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Speaker 1: then a whole bunch of companies had to fire tons

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Speaker 1: of people because there was a lie. You can look

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Speaker 1: at how Sinclair broadcasting dominates local news channels and websites um,

482
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Speaker 1: and how well established local papers are struggling while big

483
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 1: companies buy up all the competition. So it's it's it's

484
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Speaker 1: especially the venture capitalist thing is actually a really uh

485
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Speaker 1: is a really interesting idea that has been documented decently well.

486
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Speaker 1: And in the bed, I'll teach you how to bypass

487
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Speaker 1: uh newspaper headlines via different methods. But there's this actually

488
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Speaker 1: a good article in the Washington Post um that is

489
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Speaker 1: titled as a secretive hedge fund gets its newspapers, journalists

490
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: are fighting back. It kind of just details all of

491
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Speaker 1: the different hedge funds, adventure capitalists firms instead of like

492
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Speaker 1: just totally destroyed so many local papers throughout the entire country.

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Speaker 1: It's actually kind of surprising once you learn how many

494
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Speaker 1: of these papers are just getting destroyed by like just

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Speaker 1: a few, like just like a few hedge funds are

496
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Speaker 1: just doing all this damage, and it's it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is why the current like journalism industry

498
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Speaker 1: kind of sucks right now, is because of these types

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Speaker 1: of practices. And I mean, like no one likes it,

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Speaker 1: like no one's happy with it, Like everyone hates journalism

501
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: journalists hate journalism. People who read journalism hates journalism like

502
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: activists hate journalism, like everyone's mad at it um. And yeah,

503
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: you can look at these these hedge funds and venture

504
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: cap the lists who are just like making it such

505
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Speaker 1: an impossible industry. Uh. And then you know how you

506
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: have like you have internet sites and culture sites like Vice,

507
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed and Cracked who had to frequently lay off large

508
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: swaths of their editorial and writing teams, whether for like

509
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: union reasons or because the company made faild attempts to

510
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: chase some big tech companies or media giants you know,

511
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: proposed money like in the Facebook switching over to video

512
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 1: content kind of debacle that happened a few years ago.

513
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: And like it's it's it's it's understandable why these writers, artists,

514
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: the journalists are frustrated because, yeah, the work is hard

515
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: and the salaries are low. Well, the work should be hard,

516
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: and some people kind of slack off, but you know,

517
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: for the good journalism is more is challenging, and salaries

518
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: typically aren't great. But even if audience monetary support were

519
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: the solution to making creative and writing industries more profitable, again,

520
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: the kind of anti piracy folks would still be missing

521
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: A fundamental point is that kind of the of the

522
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: pro paywall people want you to get it through your

523
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: head that journalism is just like other types of things

524
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: you buy, whether it be food, you know, alcohol or entertainment,

525
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: um saying you know all these things. You know, Netflix

526
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: isn't free. You know, Coca Cola isn't free. Right, This

527
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: isn't journalism's fault. It's just how the world works. You

528
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: have to buy it to use it it. You know,

529
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: it costs money to make you have to buy it

530
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: to use it. It's just it's it's it's like, it's

531
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: dumb to think otherwise. This is kind of their framework.

532
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: But I beg to differ because enjoying art and worthwhile journalism,

533
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: I think should always have the option of being free,

534
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: because when information is in the public interest, it should

535
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: just always be available to everybody, whether or not you've

536
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: already used up your three free articles. Like this is

537
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: really important, especially now when there's you know, the whole

538
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: the whole war thing happening and finding like paywall articles

539
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: about it is incredibly frustrating. Uh. And yeah, I mean

540
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: there was even when the there was a right wing

541
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Speaker 1: right ring extremist who opened fire and killed someone at

542
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: a Portland's uh black Lives Matter protests a few weeks ago.

543
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: Uh that that is you know, still definitely impacting the

544
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: city because it was it's it's still very recent. But

545
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: a lot of the news coverage, first of all, it

546
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: wasn't great. Uh. There was a whole bunch of news

547
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: coverage was like was parroting the police lies and framing

548
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: the framing the attackers like an innocent homeowner who was

549
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,959
Speaker 1: defending himself. It was pretty gross. But even even when

550
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: the news articles started to like correct their previous agree

551
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: with errors, um, almost all of it was pay walled,

552
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: like all like all, like a whole bunch of stuff

553
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: was pay welled about it. And that's incredibly frustrating because

554
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: this is like, you know, when information is in the

555
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: public interest, it should be free to access. Like that's

556
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: just there's like a good moral thing like uh and

557
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: even um, and we've seen it. We've seen this before.

558
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: Back in when the plague was a new thing, news

559
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: organizations across the country started to lift pay walls to

560
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: share coverage of the coronavirus pandemic um, which was great

561
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: and you know, you can you can obviously see that

562
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: once that changed over, a lot of people who we're

563
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: making this happen behind the scenes probably hoped that which

564
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: just convince people to become paying customers. But it was

565
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: still like, that's still the way things should be is

566
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: to have have the option of it being free and

567
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: then having the option to donate. And this actually seems

568
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: to be kind of the trend. Uh. The University of

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00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: Texas at Austin surveyed about like a thousand Chicago residents

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00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: about their local news consumption, and they found that respondents

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00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: were more willing to give a ten dollar donation to

572
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: support a free news site than pay ten dollars for

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00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: a subscription to access premium news content. So yeah, like

574
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: that's and that I definitely share that same like, uh,

575
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: that same idea. I will weigh sooner donate money to

576
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: a newspaper that I enjoy that is also free, that

577
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: I will pay ten dollars a month to read subscription

578
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: service based news. It's a it's because it turns out

579
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: when you like this, this applies to all types of media,

580
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: but like when you enjoy media, you want to support

581
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: its creators, whether that be anime, whether that be sonic

582
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: the fucking headgehog, whether that be whether that be news

583
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: or books. Right, if you like something, you're gonna buy it, Right.

584
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: I gotta introduced to te Lemony stikets books to be

585
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: the library, and now I bought lots because I wanted to.

586
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to buy the books from the person that

587
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: I like. Yeah, and there are entire like industries and

588
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: they literally just work on this person list. This is

589
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: why free to play games work. Yeah, exactly. There there's

590
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: another conversation with free to play games here about like

591
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: addiction and gambling and manipulation about that, but like that

592
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: that's you know, like setting that aside for a second.

593
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, these things if if if people didn't want,

594
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: if didn't spend money on things they like, free to

595
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: pay games would not work like fundamentally as a model. Yeah, No,

596
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: definitely definitely the idea of like, yeah, you get someone

597
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: starts to awaying the service, then they start paying for it,

598
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: whether it be buying useless you know, skin for whatever

599
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: third person shooter you have, or that be you know,

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00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: buying books or copies of of the film or like anime,

601
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: body pillows, whatever, like you do you want to financially

602
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: support the things that you enjoy. This is just a

603
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: part of this is what humans do. So yeah, maybe

604
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,959
Speaker 1: more stuff should be have the option of being free. Uh,

605
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: that definitely my take on it. Let's let's have a

606
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: quick let's have a bit of a speaking of free content,

607
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: this podcast is brought to you by these lovely sponsors,

608
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: so you can listen for free while just skipping the ads.

609
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: So good for you. We're back and now we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about different ways of bypassing pay walls, specifically for

611
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: online news, because paywalls frustrate me and as someone who

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00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: likes must around with kind of computer e stuff, there's

613
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: definitely a long list of ways to buy pass paywalls,

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00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: depending on what types of paywalls we are talking about.

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00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: So types of pay walls there are. There are typically

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Speaker 1: two general types of pay walls. There's hard pay walls

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00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: and soft pay walls. Um, hard pay walls require payment

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00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: up front, so usually some some form of subscription fee

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Speaker 1: before accessing any content. Websites with hard pay walls. Maybe

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00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: we'll act you lead like a tiny snippet of the article,

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Speaker 1: but you need access, you need you need to pay

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00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: subscription to access the full, The full content. Soft pay

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Speaker 1: walls are are are typically allow you to read a

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: number of articles before you need to buy buy a subscription.

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00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: So it's there's you have a set number of articles

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00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: that you can read for a fixed period or session. Um,

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00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: there's you know, a lot of a lot of a

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00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: lot of websites operate like this. Most of New York

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Speaker 1: Times operates like this. A lot of a lot of

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00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: a lot of news sites have a soft paywall model,

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Speaker 1: which is great because they're typically a little bit easier

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00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: to bypass the first first method. This works some of

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Speaker 1: the time. It depends on how the website is constructed,

634
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,479
Speaker 1: but you can try to stop the loading page before

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00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: it fully loads. Uh so generally a quick technique. It's

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00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: effective on several different types of web pages. UH. You

637
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: have to stop your browser from fully loading the webpage

638
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: as soon as your breaser displays the text element of

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00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: the paywell to content. So you you know, enter a

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Speaker 1: page U R L into the search bar, press enter,

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00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: and then press the X icon or the escape key

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00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: as soon as you see some of the text on

643
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: screen before a paywall window pops up. UM. A major

644
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: limitation of this is that stopping the website may not

645
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: load all content elements, so it mainly render like a

646
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: portion of the text, or it may like miss out

647
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: on like files like images, animations or videos. Um. And

648
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: it also depends on the order of which the website

649
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: loads the page elements. So for example, if the website

650
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: loads to pay Well first, then this check won't be successful. Also,

651
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: you gotta have to be kind of pretty fast in

652
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: order to make this one work. Typically this isn't the

653
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: first way I do it, because there's generally generally easier ways.

654
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: But if you can do this, then cool. It's definitely

655
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: it's definitely a fast one if you can't get it

656
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: to succeed for soft paywall, so like I, I will

657
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: say the stopping the browser from loading is actually successful

658
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: at some hard paywall sites because if they do like

659
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: load a portion of the text to read as like

660
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: a stippet, sometimes it will actually load the entire text,

661
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: but then just block it off with a separate window.

662
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: So sometimes with a hard paywall you can actually stop

663
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: it via this method. So that's always fun. Um. But

664
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: second method, generally more for soft paywalls, is for is

665
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 1: to delete your pages cookies. So you know websites store

666
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: cookies to track your browser UM activities, including how much

667
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: content you back tested. So blog publishers, news newspaper sites

668
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: can track the number of fage articles you've read using

669
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: the cookies stored on your browser. If you hit the

670
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: limit for for non subscribers, if like the limit of

671
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: articles allotted, then you can delete the website cookies to

672
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: refresh the to refresh that counter and it will possibly

673
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: reset the limit of articles UM. You can go to

674
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: the privacy or security section of your web browsers, like

675
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: the option that allows you to check the cookies and

676
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: site for all data, and then search for the website

677
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: that you're looking for in the in the cookie management

678
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: page and then click remove all. You can do this

679
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: on like Firefox, Chrome, Microsoft Edge if you want to

680
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: use that for some reason. UM Safari. Yeah, but this

681
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: trick may not work very well on hard pay walls

682
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: because it that's that they don't really use cookies for

683
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: the same purpose. And also you'll have to you know,

684
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: do if you're doing that. If you're doing this for

685
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: soft pay walls, you have to do it every time

686
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: you you reach the limit UM. And if this won't

687
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: work if the website is using other kind of more

688
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: advanced tools to track your activity like I p logs, right,

689
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: So if it's tracking your AP data instead of your cookies,

690
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: then this probably won't work. So this one's this one.

691
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: I mean you you should clear cookies every once in

692
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: a while anyway, just like generally a good practice, But

693
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: to do this all the time, it's kind of a

694
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: kind of a bit of work, especially because the next

695
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: method is typically easier and does the same thing, which

696
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: is just reading articles inside a private or incognito mode

697
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: or in the tour browser. Um So, as as as

698
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: as explained earlier, not all paywalls are about the same.

699
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 1: If you know, if a website uses a soft paywall,

700
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: you should be able to read a subscription based content

701
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: through incongnito or private browsing because it'll check the it'll

702
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: it'll check the website into thinking you're a brand new visitor,

703
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: granting you access to the content before it had before

704
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: it racks up enough of views to uh to throw

705
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: up the paywall window. So this is this is a

706
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: lot easier than just manually to leading the companies every

707
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: single time, because yeah, most web browsers do not transmit

708
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: pre existing cookies onto an incognito or private mode browser mode,

709
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: so it doesn't switch those back over. And then although

710
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: the website will deposit new cookies on your browser during

711
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: private browsing sessions, they will be removed as soon as

712
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: you close the window. Uh. One bummer is that some

713
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: news pages are getting wise and actually are programming their

714
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: websites to be able to be able to detect if

715
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: they're opened in a private or browsing mode or even

716
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: on tour um and they just like won't open. They'll

717
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: they'll say, sorry, you have to. We We've detected that

718
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: you're using this in private browsing mode to view this content.

719
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: Boot up a regular browser, which which really sucks for

720
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: the tour users because a lot of people are like, hey, yeah,

721
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm in China, I'm trying to get past the Great

722
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: Firewall and fuck you eat ship. You should have somehow

723
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: paid a subscription service to us to see information on

724
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: this site that is literally illegal here. Like it's great.

725
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: It's really bad for people who are like actually facing

726
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: government censorship who need to use tour to view content.

727
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that is Uh, it's what we call

728
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: a major bummer. Uh, a major sucks. A made your

729
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: Oh no, capitalism did a whoopsie. Um yeah, but yeah,

730
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: this is definitely this is one of the modes I

731
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: do most often. It's like I can typically get get

732
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: a lot of sites to be able to view through

733
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: incong unit or private or private browsing. But again it

734
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: does depend on what the site is ah is built

735
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: to do. But bar far my favorite method. Oh yes,

736
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: I'll mention. Another one that I don't really use very

737
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: often is the paywall or removal extensions for for your browser,

738
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: which is like third party browser extensions which try to

739
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: automatically bypass paywalls. These are really hit and miss, um

740
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: and it's they're also a really great way to get nice,

741
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: fancy malware onto your computer. UM, So I would I

742
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: typically steer clear of this. But there there is allegedly

743
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: a browser extension called bypass paywalls for Chrome and Firefox

744
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: that allegedly has been found to be effective, um that

745
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: allows you to read the subscription based articles on hundreds

746
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: of publications like New York Times, Wired, Wall Street Journal,

747
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: Washington Post. Um. It is, it is. It is free,

748
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: but you have to manually load it onto your browser.

749
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: And just typically I'm not a big fan of browser

750
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: extensions in the first place. So I kind of steer

751
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: clear of these, but some some some people, some people

752
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: swear by them, so maybe maybe they can work. They're

753
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: they're they're not only my thing, but my favorite method

754
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: is archive websites, uh, specifically archived dot is. So there

755
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: are internet archiving tools that preserve copies of webpages and

756
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: social media posts for reference purposes, and you can use

757
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: these tools to access pabled content and read subscription based

758
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,720
Speaker 1: news articles for free, including a lot of hard paywalled pages.

759
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: Archive dot i s or archive dot is is my

760
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: favorite one. Um. Also it's it functions under archive dot today.

761
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: Uh just it just it depends on what surfers they're

762
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: running at the moment. Of course, there's also the classic

763
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: and pretty reliable archived dot org, which has a nice

764
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: calendar feature. But it's definitely good to check both of

765
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: these because sometimes article be archived on archived dot is

766
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: really easily, and it won't be are available on archived

767
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: dot org. Sometimes it will be on archive dot org

768
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: and not Archive's currently the one that's currently live. I

769
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: think it's not. pH It automatically switches usually I could.

770
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: I usually just type in our cave dot is um

771
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: and it switches me over automatically. But yes, there is,

772
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: there is, there is, there is a few of them. Yeah, yeah,

773
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: you are right correct. It does automatically revert to archive

774
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: dot phr at the moment. So yeah, but these these

775
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: are the ones I use the most because people who

776
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: have access to hard paywalled content will often archives the

777
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: hard paywalled stuff so it's available to people without the paywall.

778
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: This this this can include the screenshot mode for archive

779
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: dot is and the regular archival method for archive dot org.

780
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: But both these are great, um and they're also really

781
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: good for looking at past versions of the articles, so

782
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: you can look to see what how the articles have

783
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: changed over time, and so is your great just research tools.

784
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: And archive dot is is very easy to even upload

785
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: stuff yourself, even if you don't have um the paywalls,

786
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: Like even if you're blocked off from reading the whole thing,

787
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: you can try to submit it to our chave dot

788
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: is and there's a good chance and actually grab an

789
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: unpaywalled version of it because because of how because of

790
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: how the site works. So let's go to archive dot

791
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: pH r or or archive dot is, enter the web

792
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: page u r L that you're wanting to access in

793
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: the designated dialect box at the bottom. It's like to save,

794
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: it'll go through a little process, um, and then then

795
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: you will then you'll be able to select the screenshop

796
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: mode or the webpage mode and be able to see

797
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: what type of thing in archives. It's pretty it's pretty cool. Um. It's.

798
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: The last thing I'll mention is outline dot com and

799
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: twelve foot Ladder. These are web based tools, but not

800
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: specifically archival sites. They're generally used to just get to

801
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: the text of an article it would via like web

802
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: page nonsense and bypassing paywall stuff. Unfortunately, websites have also

803
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: gotten wise to this, so stuff like New York Times

804
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: and Wall Street Journal have figured out a way to

805
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: get to these sites blocked so you cannot use outline

806
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: dot com or twelve foo Ladder on them, but they

807
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: still work on stuff like The Washington Post, so it

808
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: always depends. But I definitely generally will prefer the archive

809
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: dot is and archive dot org method to viewing any

810
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: kind of paybold content. Um. Yeah, and that's kind of

811
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: my I mean, I'm not now I'm not going to

812
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: explain how to do like regular piracy on the podcast

813
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: because I don't have enough time, but like it's easy. Yeah,

814
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: there are there are lots of people who will tell you.

815
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: I mean like Hiss Cartoon is like a very popular website,

816
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: Like you don't even need to, like you don't even

817
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: have to like properly tour and stuff anymore. There is

818
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: like so much piraated media of help. Yeah, and it's

819
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: like okay, so like you've got to be a little

820
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: bit careful when your parting stuff because sondsmes you can

821
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: get copyright strike, but if you stream it, they don't

822
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: copy strike you for that. So yeah. Yeah. The other

823
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: thing I will plug is a PLEX, which is a

824
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: kind of an online movie host service like Netflix, except

825
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: you upload all of the content to it. So let's

826
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: say you buy Blue Rays, it comes it comes with

827
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: the digital download code, So now you can upload the

828
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: digital copy into Plex and watch that wherever you want,

829
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: as long as you're signed into to the Plex account

830
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: and you actually own the stuff on the service. So

831
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: as long as the services online, you can use it

832
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: because you actually own the stuff on it. Um that

833
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: includes if you have if you have pirated versions of

834
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: movies downloaded, you can upload this versions onto Plex then

835
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: then delete the actual hard copies of it on your

836
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: hard drive, then just watch the ones in PLEX and

837
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: you're totally fine. So PLEX is great for having like

838
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: ease of access because right sometimes I don't want to

839
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: sort through my Blu ray discs and make sure that

840
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: I have a Blu ray player with me so to

841
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: watch my stuff. So using PLEX is a great wet

842
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: method to keep your stuff that you actually own accessible

843
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: online to watch it as long as you sign into

844
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: a web browser. Um. And the last thing I'll plug

845
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: is library submission form. So if you really want media

846
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: and you don't wanna pay for it and you don't

847
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: want to like pirate necessarily, you can get libraries to

848
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: buy stuff. Um. I did this all the time when

849
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: I was younger. I I found out that you can

850
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: submit items for purchase via via via the library on

851
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: the online forum, and I submitted so many comic books. Uh,

852
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: most of the comic books, I would say, I'm not

853
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: like a good majority of the comic books in the

854
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: Molton County Library system are because of me. Every every Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: when a new trade paperback would be released, I would

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Speaker 1: upload it to the library submission form and they would

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Speaker 1: buy it. Uh, and not just one coffee. They would

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Speaker 1: buy like twelve copies. So there's so many Batman comics

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Speaker 1: in the in the in the moltonmo Comney system because

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Speaker 1: I would studiously upload upload all that stuff so that

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Speaker 1: I didn't need to pay for comics. I could just

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Speaker 1: get them from the from the library. So definitely look

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Speaker 1: into library submissions to kind of grow what your library

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Speaker 1: has in stock, and then also looking to see what

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Speaker 1: other things your library is doing, because I know more

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Speaker 1: libraries are looking into building like maker spaces and like

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Speaker 1: tool libraries to um have access to things that are

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Speaker 1: not just like books, you know, power tools, and then

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Speaker 1: you know how to access to even cool stuff like

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Speaker 1: stuff like vacuum formers and like three three printers, laser cutters.

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Speaker 1: All these things are kind of growing. So look into

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Speaker 1: what your library is doing because oftentimes libraries have some

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Speaker 1: pretty cool stuff. Um. So yeah, this is my little

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Speaker 1: little bit on why I don't like paywalls, why I

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Speaker 1: think content should be free because it actually helps creators

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Speaker 1: in the long run any anyway, And how to get

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Speaker 1: past news articles that don't want you to read them

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Speaker 1: without paying too much money yep. And remember, folks, if

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Speaker 1: Japan invaded your country, pirrating anime as reparations. If you're

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Speaker 1: mad about this tweet, find me on Twitter and I write, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: make sure your tweet and I right, okay if you

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Speaker 1: have complaints about that take So yeah, that is that

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Speaker 1: is my little my my little bit talking about piracy

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Speaker 1: are and uh and yeah, I mean morest we should,

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Speaker 1: we should, we should. I think it's I've always had

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Speaker 1: I've always hold this opinion that I think we can

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Speaker 1: all learn a lot of lessons from Sonic the Hedgehog um.

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Speaker 1: And I think one of the greatest ones is that

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Speaker 1: it turns out when you make stuff available to use,

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Speaker 1: uh for free and allow emulation, people like people like,

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Speaker 1: people like the stuff, more people enjoy it, and it

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Speaker 1: will actually support official uses of it as well. So

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Speaker 1: more stuff for free, more more library based economies, and

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Speaker 1: having having gold rings, having an enormous number of gold

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Speaker 1: rings makes you nearly invincible. That that is this is

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Speaker 1: this is also true. I mean the multiple franchises exist

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Speaker 1: with that exact premise. Um. Yeah, so it turns out

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Speaker 1: when you have more, more libraries, more rings, people are happier. Yep,

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Speaker 1: that's the episode